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best time. Make sure you explore different
cultures, cuisines, music, and learn about
various religions. All these meaningful
experiences can broaden your horizon and
enrich your inner life, thereby giving a new
sense of purpose.
6. Cultivate the Curiosity to Learn New
Things
Have you been planning to learn a new
4. Change Your Routine skill or educate yourself about a given
One thing that can make your life lose item? You are never too old to learn
meaning is engaging in unfulfilling activity something new. If you wake up every day
routinely. If you find that you are not with an urge to educate yourself, you will
happy and motivated to do what you have always find life worth living.
been doing for weeks or months, it is time Dear Family: Sit down with the seniors in
to alter your routine and create a pattern your lives, identify their areas of interest,
that brings satisfaction. Conversely, it and help them to explore or participate in
is critical to ensure that you do not stay such initiatives. You can help them enrol
without doing anything. Being part of new in classes, encourage them to join a group,
activities daily can unlock a more profound buy them books, or even show them how
sense of purpose and meaning. to access learning resources from the
internet. Constant improvement through
5. Explore and Travel learning can give seniors a purpose and
For those without physical and financial you will see their quality of life improves
limitations, traveling and exploring can dramatically.
expand your mind and give your life a new Remember, “Ageing is not ‘lost youth’ but
meaning. If there are places in your bucket a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
list that you have not visited, now is the Betty Friedan
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