Rikhyo K Lotha
In this world, everyone wish to live long and to stay young; nobody denies it. If you enjoy your work and take an active interest in what is going around you, you are assured of happy long life and also to stay young. A man or woman has to enjoy to his or her works to keep themselves physically fit and happy. A positive attitude to life leads to ripe and longer old age.
1. Health: the general state of your physical health and fitness, your weight, diet, how much you smoke and how much you drink alcohol and the amount of exercise you take; affect your resistance to disease.
2. Emotional outlook: The most important of all, how you mix with others, and get along and how well you are satisfied with the way you live.
3. Activities: You should be active, taking part in religious, social and health activities and enjoy leisure time. You are the way you live. Your economic condition should also be satisfying.
4. Attitude: An optimistic outlook on life, contentment with your place in life and general worth’s are of vital importance.
5. Psychological and Intelligence factor: how well you use your mental faculties and your intelligence level, high regard for your own health and physical well being, ability to find intellectual stimulation in your everyday life and being free from mental and emotional.
6. Adjustment rating: You should be capable and know that you are capable of adjusting to life to people and situation that may be brought face to face.
7. Environment: You should live in an area where you can get good medical attention needed to remain fit.
8. Socio-economic: A good education and a good job are plus factors for longevity. The vital factors involved in longevity are those associated with keeping active, good adjustment and satisfied life.
9. Idea: It is not the number of years that makes you old but the idea that you are getting old. Many are young at eighty years, while others are old at forty years. Life is our flame and you live by invisible worry which makes men prematurely old. The joy of the heart makes men the face fair. Cheerful mind cure and ward off physical and mental disease.
10. Counting: The longer you live, the more you think and higher the value you put in friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. Honor your father and mother, so that all may go well with you and may live long in the land. (Eph. 6:2-3) Count your life by smiles not by tears. Count your age by friends not years.
11. Spiritual Courtesy: You will always stay young. If you live honestly, eat slowly, have sufficient sleep, work industrially and worship God faithfully.
12. Enthusiasm: Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty years or eighty years. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Years wrinkle the skin but it gives up enthusiasm, yet it doesn’t wrinkle the soul.
13. Forgive sin, heal, rejuvenate: The Holy Bible says “If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked way, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land, long live and rejuvenating.
