My Life's Abstractions / Part 6

Title: There's Nothing to Hide
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Part 6 of 8 ... of My Life's Abstractions

"Growth happens at any age. A seven year old may mature early when life is hard or maturity may elude an 80 year old grandfather, who has refused to learn from the mistakes he has committed in his lifetime.

Life is about choices. Follow your heart and you will never go wrong. Do not be embarrassed to say no. How many social functions are we 'forced' to attend? We treat them as bothersome obligations rather than joyful happenings.

We become more and more honest as we get older. We choose whom we want to see or prefer not to at the moment. He or she may be someone you love, used to love, like or used to like. It doesn't matter. It won't matter . You'll survive it and he /she will too.

Growing old is having the freedom of not having to say something nice. If you don't feel it, don't say it. It is learning to keep your mouth shut lest you utter sharp criticisms or hurtful words. Grown ups should not indulge in gossip.

Growing old is having the courage to detach from a person, a group or activity that we feel no longer makes us grow. Or drags us down.Old people no longer do things to please anybody."

There is no need to hide anything, or hide from anybody. Everything is out in the open. Take me or leave me. Love me or hate me. It doesn't matter anymore. My time is short and one day, nothing will matter anymore.

Only one will matter to me. Him.

[ Quotes from "When I Grow Up" by Ms. Gilda Cordero-Fernando]