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The Growing Old Vs The Growing Up

The Growing Old Vs The Growing Up

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In normal circumstances, we simply grow old, we don't grow up. Growing Old is one thing, growing up is another total different thing. Every plant, animal and human grow old. But only humans have the tendency of growing up. When we say we are growing, we don't grow on one spot. Stagnancy isn't an emblem of growing. Someone or something must move in a given direction. Growing is just about the movement from one level to another. Either horizontally or vertically and either a step upward or a step forward. Growing old and growing up are aired by a popular pilot known as change. Be it from small to big, from short to tall, from foolishness to wisdom. A man of Ignorance into becoming the knowledgeable. A man with the spirit of extravaganza into becoming a man that is an economizer. All still talks about a driving or moving force. Something that removes an individual from one spot and placing him to another. That's the more reason a man cannot be foolish and be wise at the same time. But he can either get more foolish or more wise. He can either get poorer or richer. He can either become less spiritually sound or more spiritually sound. And other various examples you can also come to think of. Ageing is simply about change. Why do you actually think those jokes you heard while you were still a little kid have little or no effect on your current state of humour? Why is it that those nice boots you used in playing football during your primary school days no longer size your feet? Why is it that the way guys are coming to get attracted to you, is extremely different from the time when you were still 9 year old? Growing Old is an horizontal line that draws us closer to our grave. Growing Up is a vertical line that makes us admit that we are getting closer to the grave and still driving us into the reality cave. Let me make this clearer. Growing old will only make us physically and biologically mature, but it is the content we feed our mindset that will make us grow up. No wonder there are several aged people out there, who still don't have matured sense of reasoning. Please, I don't want you to blame them. They are only just passing through the door series of growing old and not through the sequential gates of growing up. Your mindset is the sole centre for growing up in every sphere of your life. It is what you feed your mindset that will determine of how your destiny and your future will be set. Now, my question for you is, what do you feed your mindset with, which is the sole centre of your all-round maturity with? Growing old and growing up both have limit, because you cannot live on this earth forever. But so far you're still living to grow old, growing up doesn't end. You cannot continue to learn anything new, once the process of your growing old is being terminated. "You'll stop growing up, the moment you stop growing old." Growing up is an option for everyone. It all depends on you, whether to activate the button or not.

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Chapter 1 - The Chronological Ageing

Tick Says The Clock!

"So teach us to number our days. That we may gain a heart of wisdom." Psalm 90:12 KJV

Yes! Nobody will remind you that you'll be that age next year. Growing old is always responsible in setting this automatic alarm for you annually. Your chronological age is the amount of time that has passed from your birth to the given date. It's your age in terms of years, months, days, etc. This is the primary way people define their age. Chronological age is your actual age right from birth regardless of developmental or biological level. It is the measure of time a person has spent out of the womb interacting with the environment. Although, it is inseparably with biological growth and experience. As humans, we have two different types of growing old—Chronologically and biologically.

Chronological age is the number of years a person has been alive, while biological age refers to how old a person seems. Biological age, also referred to as physiological age, takes many lifestyle factors into consideration, including diet, exercise and sleeping habits, to name a few. Succinctly, chronological growth is to age in the number of your years. While biological growth is to age in accordance to your body development.

How we grow old is really beyond our control. It is primarily influenced by genetics, but research sheds light on how aging can be affected by external factors, including diet, exercise, stress, and smoking. Many gerontologists believe chronological age to be an incomplete figure because it doesn't take these external factors into consideration. When we say physical ageing, we relate or talk about the body and it development, whilst physiological ageing, refers to the body functions. Both physical and physiological characteristics are important in understanding development, effects, addictions and traits among humans and all other species. Nevertheless, we can still most times, predict someone's age with the physical appearance and not necessarily the physiological state. That's why it is very possible for a lady of 26 years of age to possess the breast of an 11 year old. Physically, she's mature, but physiologically, she's not. Because the hormones responsible for the growth and development of her breast are not been produced sufficiently. And that doesn't still mean can judge her chronological age to be that of an 11 year old female child. Also the same way you cannot use physiologically use people's height to accurately determine their chronological age.

The Simple Truth

"God is always smiling, whenever He sees you growing old to an expected end." Jeremiah 29:11