In my relentless search for more meaningful monikers for anti-deluvian, fourth estate words like retirement and seniors, I thought of how getting one’s Second Wind matches my experience with this stage of life.
I found Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s metabolic description of this phrase: http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/second_wind.html
Staying with Mirkin’s thread, I also found this: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/05/news/age.php A Herald Tribune article about a 71-year-old champion runner and scientists’ take on what’s really going on with him.
Here’s my personal metaphoric extraction from these articles: purpose produces remarkable new achievements.
Without a purpose we only sit out our time on the bench. Moving only from reaction to reaction, occasionally feeling temporarily revived, but remaining in a general state of atrophy. We begin to degenerate like inanimate objects. Our minds and bodies deteriorate like our cars and lawnmowers. We buy into the old scripts.
Finding a new purpose sends us into a higher gear, fuels our mind for action, accelerates momentum and generates new energy, directions and rewards.
If you think you have climbed your highest mountain or feel like the game is over, ask yourself, “Is this all I want?” Did you quit the game and join the spectators? Aren’t you just a little curious about what could be waiting for you on the other side of inertia? Do you want to rust out or burn out?
If you think you want more than you’ve got and would like to explore your road not taken, contact me.
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