Pro-Age Manifesto

Life is a one-way journey that can turn into an obstacle course or be a wonderful adventure. Often, the difference lies more in our mindset than in the context.

The way we approach this extraordinary and mysterious journey truly makes the difference between the struggle to endure it and the enthusiasm to face it. Due to cultural heritage, we are accustomed to thinking of it in sequential terms of sowing and reaping.

The first part of our life should constitutionally be the time for sowing, and the second for reaping, with all the nuances that follow.

Planning, designing, and dreaming belong to the age of physical vigor and moral recklessness, to the youthful age when you are allowed to imagine the future, invest in its realization, and commit yourself physically and emotionally to achieving goals that will represent your harvest in adulthood.

Fulfillment, satisfaction, and tranquility belong to the age of maturity, understood as economic, emotional, and spiritual stability—the age of pragmatism that firmly anchors you to reality and materializes in the summing up of the algebraic and moral results of all the time before.

We have inherited the idea of existence as a straight line that, from the delivery room to the cemetery, unfolds linearly and in accordance with the belief that each age has strict prerogatives from which it would be senseless to deviate. In doing so, we have sacrificed, on the altar of 'that's life,' all those existences that, lacking ideal conditions or clear ideas, found themselves spending the time of sowing laboring on barren lands with expired seeds in adverse climates. People who could not enjoy the time of reaping because the time for sowing had already passed.

I have learned at my own expense (and fortunately) that the cultural farming archetype of sowing and reaping is actually applicable to every phase of life.

As long as you are alive, you can always sow; you can always choose to till the soil of your personal history, and if you realize that it is not good soil, you can always decide to move in search of land more suitable for your type of cultivation. Planning, designing, and dreaming are not prerogatives of youth; they are prerogatives of a lively mind, a bold heart, and a voracious spirit.

My pro-age manifesto is born from the desire to share what I have learned by rewriting the script of my life at 50. It arises from the need to roar that the time of life is all valuable time to strive for happiness.

There is no age at which one should give up dreaming, or give up changing one's life if one is not satisfied with it.

If you also believe that the time passing and carrying you with it is a gift, as well as an opportunity offered to you, share the manifesto to spread awareness of how many precious tools the passing years provide us to build the life we want.