Kudos to my sweet Centenarian!

Howdy my sweet self! I knew you could do it! Hope your journey was amazing too. A huge congratulations to you for surviving a whole 100 years in the beloved arms of Mother earth. Your own mother and father also deserve a round of applause for gifting you with such good genes but unless Mother Earth cradled you in her arms with all her might you wouldn’t have survived so long. The way she is getting destroyed bit by bit is alarming. The air we breathe, the water we drink and the food with eat is laced with slow poison which is killing us from within slowly slowly. And your ‘slowly’ has reached a 100. You beat it!

You even survived that monumental mental stress which is thrust upon everyone in this overtly competitive world from childhood itself knowingly or unknowingly. The race to gain name, fame and money is contagious and draining. Life is not only about hunting, eating and sleeping like the early man. Everyone wants to make a mark in this world and its exhausting. You surpassed all that. I mean that’s remarkable!

You’re a writer. I don’t know if your writing career flourished or not. But I hope you held on to the belief is that you write for yourself and not for others. Writing is a powerful medium and I hope your writing made an impact. One thing I would like to remind you in this letter is to write down the secret of your long life before it gets over.

Was Yoga and Tai chi impactful? Did you follow Ikigai? Was meditation helpful or medication? Did pure love live up to its hype? Does it make life magical? What did you eat and how much did you sleep? How did you handle the ‘people’ around you? Listening to them helped or shutting them up? Are you lonely? Your age group is rare after all. How do you handle it? Any more tips to live long?

All these needs to be recorded. Hope this blog site too is surviving at that time. Write it down here itself! Your are ancient now and its time to spread your ancient wisdom. Go write!

P.S. On further thought, if your hands are not working, hire someone. After all you’re 100. But if your mouth is not working (which is highly unlikely) maybe use some technology or something. Its advancing at a lightening speed. An AI to record your thoughts maybe etc etc.

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