Growth: The Process Of Becoming Young

They say that youth is wasted on the young...

Growing older, if done correctly, is actually a process of youthing or becoming youthful, over and over again. As you age, it is all about how well you are able to renew yourself, your mind, your perspective, and your consciousness. As you grow older, are you being more solidified into the rigidity of an internal program that has invaded your consciousness from the outside? Or as you grow older, are you constantly shedding old paradigms and programs and adapting to new revelations as you adapt to the true ascension process of your purpose? Do you know what you know and will always know, or are you okay without knowing until the answer reveals itself in its own time? Sometimes, your purpose is as simple as Existing, which ofcourse leads to further existence through expansion. Perfect example. I was mentioning to my cousin how being a parent is all about evolving with your children, learning and adapting with them. In this way, yes you are young, yes you are getting the idea without even logically understanding why. This is a secret without knowing, that simply wanting to be a good parent, and through persistance, you are considering the well being and wholeness of your child's evolution through life. Therefore, becoming one with an understanding of their authority to do nothing simply but grow, which symbiotically allows you to grow as well. There are some parents who only know how to adapt to the stages of parenting while their children are small, and young. But as they age, has your parenting become stagnant and in some ways disrespectful to the growth of your child?

They say that youth is wasted on the young and I can honestly say that is the entire purpose. That is the entire lesson. In your youth, you could never have the same potential you have now. Being young is a stage of ignorance and bliss, experience and learning, failure and the constant loop of desiring to win in a young game that has truly yet to mature. However, growing up is a stage of transmuting ignorance to bliss, and transmuting experience to learning, and not just the blind experience or existence of it, as it would be perceived in young age or young consciousness existence. Growth is choosing to be young. Not because you are old and wishful, but because now you have accumulated a Spirit so powerful and wise, that you can utilize life with far more capacity to bring upon you the youthful nectar of life, and all of it's wonder. You are no longer in the game to see through the eyes of a beginner. You are ready to live.

Please don't ever feel disadvantaged by your age. To grow older is such a spiritual accomplishment, that you get to hear your inner voice say, "I have become young many, many times, and through my youth, I have become more infinite now than when I first began. I have become young so many times that I am now wise and feeling more alive and younger than ever. I have become young so many times that one would never suspect that the wisdom of the Divine Spirit lives within me eternally. I have become young so many times that I will allow any of you...and each and every one of you...to be my Teacher."

Can you be taught by the unteachable? Can you learn from the uneducated? Are you aware of your capacity, versus the capacity of the Universe? Infinitely so, there isn't enough growth in the world to catch up with the wholeness and completeness of endless possibility that exists. Why do you say you are old, or she is old, or him? Maybe they represent aging with a stiffness that is off putting to the wanderers, the free spirits, and the young. Re-defining growth, not age, is essential to growing younger. Youth is indeed captivating. Enthusiasm, excitement, adrenaline, renewal, energetic, and determined...but who says that these beautiful qualities and feelings can't be magnified and nurtured through growth? That which you call aging? Perception is everything.

Can you see the youth in your own eyes? Can you feel the glory of your existence? Do you feel alive? Pinch yourself, no better yet, lick yourself instead. Do you feel the warmth? Does it feel weird and unusual to be licking yourself? Ofcourse I hope you are licking only your arm or hand...but you are young. The choice is idealistically and youthfully changing and yours to make. Lick your lips instead, you are young. Lick your knees instead, you are young. Can you bend that low? You are alive, why not? Start stretching more, start smiling more, start saying no. Relieve yourself of the burden they call aging which is really at its best...Growth. You are young.

-Jamila Baines