Forty and Still Rocks!

Have you heard the TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert? She is the author of "Eat, Pray, Love" now a movie starring Julia Roberts and has also written a sequel to that book called, "Committed". Though the talk is about writers and their power to create those best selling scripts, I liked something else apart from the moral. There is one point where she mentions that she is "just" forty and perhaps has forty more years of work to do (till she is eighty). That is somewhere I stopped to think. She considers herself forty years young and feels she has still miles to go ahead. Now this is the kind of thinking we should have in India, not that a women should marry by 25, have kids by 30 and retire by 35 from work. We actually forget that as we grow older we evolve, we learn from life's lessons, then why quit when you are just ready to deal with things better and are well equipped to face the problems of life. No matter what is your gender or what job you do, it is never too late to keep working. There are people whose careers have actually started well after forty, Barack Obama being one of them, who became the US Senate only after crossing that age. Perhaps that's what he calls, "The Audacity of Hope". There is no age to start and no age to quit; it is rightly said that as long as you are alive there is still a purpose.  And that is what should keep us driving. 

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