"I'm out!" - No mood for self-optimization
Everyone is always talking about a new start in life. However, our author Oda Albers does not intend to join in or reinvent herself. A farewell to the self-optimization and a Loblieb on a completely unfashionable solution
42-year-old teachers become personal coaches. Personnel change the area with 47 and found their own company later. Ex-business administrators open up clean gyms with juice bars. And young, yet slender mothers discovered market gaps during breastfeeding and seized the opportunity to invent co-working daycare or children's apps. And they feel fitter than 30, run faster than 20, and they also tweet or blog about it ... it's just amazing.
Whenever I read something like that, of course I think: Superwow! She has three children too. That's crazy. And right away, I'm going to make up for it with my life: what I could start up like that and start or turn my Vita, and then I do not think much about it. I'm not even on Twitter.
Is there anything left?
Of course you could get a bit sad and doubt and despair and feel terribly lazy, so undynamic.
So perhaps reflect and look at life and self in peace? In front of the mirror: Hey, moin, wake up now! Is there anything left?
And then I stand there and see that there is still a lot of turning. Purely superficially alone. On the skin: a bit coarse-pored, right? On my hair: subtly unvital, discreet splissig. Or on the breasts, logo, which could really make a restart.
I could look younger. Flat, firmer, harder. So could I? if not a career jump, at least to optimize the look. Biohacking is called that. It can be used to screw on the vital Vita.
The author Ariane Sommer does that and recently promptly wrote about it: "I'm 40 and healthier, fitter and more mentally focused than ten years ago." That would also be the measurements of their telomeres and blood plasma. I'm also 40 and ask myself instead: What the vulture are telomeres? And what's the blood value? I'm really glad that not me my plasma has to check. I'm not sick.
Why can not I just be 40 with 40?
And anyway: Who says that you have to be fitter with 40 than before? Why is allowed not me with 40 just 40? Understand not me , Like many other people, I experience certain losses: Unfortunately, I can not drink as much alcohol as I used to, I am completely shredded and have Schwallwürste under my eyes until noon. A pity. And when I feasted on soft ice cream, hotdogs and liquorice for two weeks during the summer holidays in Denmark, is it? no longer alone, but wabert at least until the next gastrointestinal flu in my tissues. But everything that Mrs. Sommer writes there just does not sound like it, that you can then drink and feed again like a Twen, but fonds by maximum minus fun. Telomeres are responsible for cell division, ie biological aging. Those who eat very healthy, achieve a slower division of telomeres. Summer also misses electric shocks and ice baths. So you have then? young, how is one? not only the better look, but also the strength and the bite to focus and to optimize, to reinvent yourself or to turn everything.
Not me! Forget it!
Is that tempting? Nope! That's why I stubbornly say to my reflection: Not me ! Forget it! I like to chat in the evening with a glass of friends. And, yes, the next evening I am really tired, and I get a little wool doily and, when it comes up, a book. I do not want a trip to the gym then? another hour of beauty gnome in the bathroom. Apart from ice bucket and electric shocks. Just look at the ceiling and think a bit. And on top of that, I like to spend my afternoons with my children, and probably my career (if you can call it that) is among my theoretical possibilities. So what?
I do not want to go back to start. I'm right in the middle of what I've decided so much. My life is the result of my wisdom and stupidity. And, here we come: I'm so happy. It's fine the way it is! Sometimes, I think, this seemingly lame, undynamic contentment may be the big goal that the rest of the re-starters have just not reached. In any case, I wish for 2018 only one thing: May I be just as happy next year. If you do not have to turn, crank, screw, start, then it works. Maybe you have even arrived. In your own life. What luck!
