How many of us are wishing our lives away?

I'm turning 30 next month and I can say that I've just started to treasure every minute with my family and with my husband but thoughts of getting old made my mind occupied with various thoughts. They say golden years are one of the stage in life that we are trying to avoid but what important is that we made something out of our life and that we touch someone's life in one way or another and when we face the maker and if ever he asked us what good deeds you do on your life on earth you can site a few and that made life worthwhile. I really believe mipen you made a difference on someone's life and facing golden age is not that difficult for you because you have a loving wife to be with you the rest of your golden age and grandchildren who admire and adore you that helps the ageing process keeps you alive and inspired by the person you dearly love.

Due to a particularly bad bout of depression the last year or so, I can completely relate too this. I'm only 40 but feel like I might as well just give up at times. No matter what I do to try n get out of this rut, something goes wrong, it almost feels like there are outside forces trying their best to keep me in a hole, what a nightmare :(

Every day is full and only as full as you want it to be. "However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society" Henry David Thoreau

Without question if you have nothing to look forward to life will become very drab and dissappointing. I beleive there never is a time that this should happen with the possiblity of finding yourself on your deathbed. Even then there is the Lord. One of the greatest gifts we humans have been given is the ability to look forward and wonder what is up ahead but at the same time not know. So all we have is the wish. However wishing your life ways is not what anyone should ever do. Those wishes will come true only if you plan on achieving them. We all have wishes that could never be met. But we also have wishes that could be met if only we worked for them. What good is a wish if not for that. Something to look forward to is what life is all about. If we ever cease to have that we are in trouble.

Hello, I'm 35 and have 2 little girls. Admittedly, I'm not ready to get old yet coz I still have a lot of things that I like to do and my girls need my time and attention. We all know that one way or another, we will all go to our maker soon. I think it is better for us to enjoy each day like it is the last day of our life. You have your grandchildren to fill your times. My father once told me that he felt young with his granddaughters around. He used his time with them by spoiling them. I haven't seen my father laughing so much in a day. I sure hope like to see my own grandchildren someday. Be happy