As we mature it seems like we are so caught up by others perception of us that we can not really be ourselves. We worry about what our parents think. We worry about what our Pastors think. We worry about what our significant others think and we make ourselves into this fake person that is always trying to meet up with their expectations.

Before we know it we’re 50 years old and we realize that we wasted so much time trying to be well-behaved for others that we missed out on living for ourselves. We then become very bitter and unhappy.

That’s why it’s hard to get an old person to do something that they don’t want to do. An old person will tell you NO in a heartbeat and keep on walking. They will wear gray sweat pants every day and socks with sandals. We laugh at them and call them old fashioned but we are the ones running out buying the latest trends, even if we don’t like them, trying to impress people.

Old people are FREE! They eat icecream when they want to. They take up hobbies and go on long trips to the grocery store, just because.

Don’t wait until you are old to begin to be yourself. Live for you! Don’t hide those outfits in the back of the closet because some magazine says it went out of style. If it looks good on you WEAR IT!

Everyone else will have something to say about what you want to do but remember it’s YOUR life, they don’t have to live it. The minute they finish criticizing or instructing you on how you should do things, they get in their car and go do what they want to do with their life. No one is instructing them.

Break away from the constraints of a society that is quick to judge and condemn and instruct, supposedly for ‘your own good.’

Trust yourself to make decisions about your life. You are the one who has to live with the repercussions of your choices.

Don’t live a life filled with regrets. You only get one chance.