Sometimes I feel like I am wine. No, I don’t want to state that when I wake up in the morning, I am stinking of yesterday’s drank alcohol.
What I want to stress is the fact that the more I am getting older, the better I feel. I would say that this statement affects both mental and physical health. Also, broadly defined, happiness and mood are getting better. The older I am, the more I feel more energetic, smarter, more intelligent, active, and experienced. Although my time is running out with every single day, I know that the more I create, the more powerful human I become. Thus, I feel like wine. The older I become, the more power and strength I possess to create art. It concerns not only in mental terms but also in real terms (building up muscles, etc.).
Furthermore, thanks to reading, my mind becomes more and more powerful.
More and more powerful experience influences my behavior and doings. This experience helped me to learn a lot of new things: thanks to reading art books, and thanks to attending the photography school, my imagination unbelievable boosted. Moreover, my heart and soul become more and more sensitive and experienced, which helps me in getting better decisions than years ago.
As an example that other people could possess similar feelings, I will give you two famous artists: famous Japanese painter Hokusai, and one of the greatest writers of all the time, Fyodor Dostoyevski. The first one produced his most famous paintings when he was 70 years old. He stated that all the works he created before his 70 were not as magnificent as those which Hokusai created when he was 70. Dostoyevski, on the other hand, in one of his marvelous novels, “The Idiot,” stated that real life begins after the fifty-fifth year of living.
He described this age as:
“the flowering time of existence when the real enjoyment of life begins.”
Moreover, in Dostoyevski’s private letters, we can also find an identical approach to the elderly age. When a famous Russian writer was 56, he wrote that he does not know if his life is ending or maybe it is just the beginning of his existence. My dream is to live with the knowledge that the more I am older, the better and more powerful art I create. Similar to Hokusai and Dostoyevski. Speaking shortly: I want to be like wine – the older I become, the tastier I am.
