What do you think gets better with age?
Most of us spend the first part of our lives becoming who we think we want to be. Tragically, it is often based on what we think others want and expect of us.
Social media is playing a pivotal role in this now. Influencers tell our youths who they should be. YouTubers push products that will gain them affluence, regardless of actual value or use. TicTok? Not even going there. Even parental opinions, not our own, but the parent’s personal opinion parroted out of our own mouths.
So, what is it that actually becomes better with age?
With all hope, our eyes open. (Experience tends to do that.) And we can begin to un-become who we thought we needed to be and we can reveal who we truly are.
It takes time, and patience and (the kicker) hard work.
C.S. Lewis touches on ub-becoming in one of his Narnia books, The Horse and his Boy. Eustace is transformed by greed, (I wouldn’t mind being a dragon, but…. you know: plot) and his un-becoming, turning back into the human he was meant to be was remarkably painful. Aslan literally claws the dragon’s flesh back off.
I know, Lewis has a lot of religious tones, but he’s an Inkling. Is what it is. He’s still a pretty OK dude in my book.
Phew! That was wordy!
Julie M Anderson 