Dear Robin,

I really like your message, but I really think you should consider changing the name from “Insights on Aging” to something like “Insights on Living.” “Insights on Aging” just seems like you’re talking about anti-aging products and I find it confusing.

--H.D., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Dear H.D.,

What I talk about is the joy and honesty and delight in life. I speak to the laughter and the kick-butt adventure that is there for all of us when we do this living thing well. I talk about grabbing this thing called “Life” and holding it close and then giving it away with a smile and a wink and a “Yee haw!” I talk about playing this game–this gift–with our hearts and souls wide open.

So, you think perhaps “Insights On Living” would be a better name? I think not. I don’t think many of us put much thought into what we are doing on a daily basis. We are so caught up in what we see as our duty or our obligations to others that we get lost in the shuffle. The “day-to-day” has become the only way to play.

So many of us settle for a less-than existence and we have the audacity to call it “living.” We wander from dawn to dusk and bounce off the walls of some prescribed thing that we call our “life.” We lack the guts or the desire to grab this thing–our life–and fling it into the air and say, “Dear God, thank you!” We wander and are dissatisfied and we fill our lives with things and events and shopping and movies and entertainment. We don’t do it. We are fed it. We ingest our days’ doings in prepackaged chunks made for easy consumption and deemed worthy by mass approval. And we believe this is living. I have no “insights” to offer for this.

But aging? Now that’s another whole dealy-do. That is the tick-ding of the moments and hours of our lives echoing down the hallways of our years. And we are all subject to time’s march. No one can truly call it anything else but “aging.” That is what it is. Each minute bring us closer to our death. Each second brings us closer to the end of our days.

So shall we face our mortality? And in so doing truly celebrate our lives? Oh my, yes! Let’s wake up! Let’s pay attention. Let’s stop playing that horrible game called “Let’s Pretend!” The avenues of my days are narrowing as are yours. I choose to embrace each moment and throw my heart and my soul to the planet. I choose to sing and dance. I choose to cherish each moment and do it with the all of me.

So, H.D., I think “Insights On Aging” is the perfect name–for no one, no one, is exempt to the call of the second hand of time. The question merely goes to you: How are you going do this thing?

H.D., I hope my answer has brought clarity to you, as it has certainly brought clarity to me.

Life is always an adventure,

Robin Korth

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