We women must understand: real life begins at the age of forty

What is the biggest fear for women? Maybe many people will first think of the word "age". They are afraid that time will make their appearance grow old, and the wind and frost will make their hair white.

People's youth is never only determined by their biological age, but more often, it is reflected by their inner vitality.

Especially for us women, there is no need to feel disappointed as we grow older. In fact, a woman’s life has just begun at the age of forty.

Life at forty has just begun

In the eyes of ordinary people, when a person reaches forty, he is nearly middle-aged. Halfway through his life, he has already spent his youngest years. Physically and in other aspects, everything has begun to decline.

As a result, many people have begun to give up their efforts, fooling themselves with "not confused at forty" and making excuses for themselves to no longer make progress.

However, from the perspective of the age group, people just become adults at the age of eighteen. In other words, before the age of eighteen, we are just growing, preparing and laying the foundation for adulthood.

So, for a forty-year-old person, from adulthood to now, he is just an adult in his teens, and life has just started, just begun.

Therefore, it seems that for people who are forty years old, the most splendid life has just begun, and a bright future is waiting for us.

As long as you have a dream, it doesn’t matter your age

Tsuneko Sasamoto was born in 1914. She grew up in a family of shopkeepers who made kimonos. She had many colorful dreams since she was a child. The world is full of curiosity and love of life.

In that backward era, the social status of Japanese women was low. After women came of age, getting married and having children seemed to be their only destination. From then on, they lost their own freedom and could only live in poverty for the rest of their lives. Being entangled with housework, she respects her husband.

Tsuneko Sasamoto, who had clear expectations for her future life, chose a path different from other women of the same age. She followed her true inner wishes and dropped out of home economics, a major she disliked.

02), because she is not willing to spend her life in trivial housework. She wants to pursue what she likes. She has too many ideals to realize.

From then on, Tsuneko Sasamoto began to study the art she loved, and often drew illustrations for newspapers, which was appreciated. At the suggestion of a friend, she began to study photography again.

However, Tsuneko Sasamoto did not stop pursuing her dream. She resolutely picked up the heavy camera.

Results always belong to those who work hard. Many of Tsuneko Sasamoto’s photography works have received praise from the industry. At the age of 28, she also found love at work and found her life partner.

02) Later, the two ended up breaking up because they were busy and spent less time together and more separations. Their subsequent fate had many twists and turns. She lost her job at the age of 49, remarried at the age of 50, was widowed at the age of 71, and was widowed at the age of 86. Falling in love again...

Tsuneko Sasamoto's life is truly a legend. When she was 102 years old, she also won the Lucy Lifetime Achievement Award, which is regarded as an Oscar in the photography industry.

The reason for her success is nothing more than her persistence in loving life. She is not bound by age and is not afraid of time. She once said: "Even if someone asks me my age, I am still Answer, I have no age!”

If a person only thinks about his age, he will become more and more depressed, because it is inevitable that age will get older year by year, and we are unable to change it. Only a mentality like Tsuneko Sasamoto can Keep yourself young forever.

Don’t be afraid of time, you are still young

01). Many times, what we are really afraid of is not aging or the passage of time, but the fear that we will lose our passion and passion for life. vitality of life.

Perhaps, we will also use age as an excuse to excuse our lack of effort, or we may not want to face the true self and cannot accept ourselves without any achievements.

Someone once said this: "When you really want to accomplish something, God will help you."

From this point of view, people can move forward. Your steps are hindered by yourself. Life is like a journey against the odds. Being complacent will only make you retreat further and lose your self-confidence.

We need to know that each age group has its own different scenery and excitement. Only by downplaying the awareness of age in your own mind and doing what you like most can you live a more meaningful life. .

02) If people often remember how old they are, it is a bad psychological suggestion, as if they are constantly reminding themselves: I am already middle-aged, how much more can I have? Good times, how much room for development can I have?

Thinking like this is undoubtedly putting oneself in a fear of waiting for the end of life, which will cause a person to feel hopeless about the future, feel incompetent, and unable to change the powerlessness brought about by age.

Only when we are aware of this problem can we ignore the existence of age and focus our time and energy on things that we think are most meaningful.

Compared with Tsuneko Sasamoto’s 106-year-old age, a forty-year-old person is too young. Our life has indeed just begun.