Aging of Mind

 Aging of Mind

Strange idea isn’t it?

Well, aging generally refers to body when we say “I am aging”. Mind doesn’t really ‘age’. It is an abstract concept of ours, widely used, because of the experiences we go through, store, and even remember to recall during every kind of situation, emotional phases etc.

Is it not true that our faculties related to what we call as our ‘mind’, seems to sync with the aging of the body?

How to retain that ‘sharp’ mind of ours, no matter what we choose to do with it.

I thought, my experiences in certain areas where we do-share some kind of commonality, might be of a tiny value addition to others. ( If I like eating brinjals, I know, i cannot ‘expect’ every reader to think of my narrative about usefulness of brinjals and they should start liking it too! No point trying to add-value by singing praises about something that cannot be common)

Mind, is common to all humans. And it can be ‘expected’ that all of us do-like to keep it ‘young’.

Some situations in our lives end up ‘fatiguing’ the minds at a very young age (some kind of disappointments, some kind of non-fulfillment of desires etc.)... In such cases, the mind ages suddenly! They decide to ‘some-how’ go through this life, and resolve to live a very routine-mundane life. I guess this attempt might rejuvenate even such young bodied ones with a prematurely aged minds!

Those of us who managed to get away with our stubbornness's, adamancies, etc. during young age, with a sharp mind, would find the need to tone down these negatives in us to remain ‘relevant’. Eccentricities are tolerated only when it belongs to brilliant ones :)

Innovativeness helps the mind to retain its abilities. Unless there is some kind of intense-involvement in what we do, or like to do with a situation, innovation starves without its fuel.

If this idea is wrong, please stop reading any further.

After retirement, I saw that I could afford to slow down the pace of my life! Situation is not going to slow down to oblige me :) so, start a bit earlier to reach the deadline with youngsters around!

This slowing down (of doing things, thinking, calculating, conjuring :)) etc very naturally allowed me to focus better in my activity, physical or mental. My involvement got additional strength, with better focus. And involvement persuaded my alertness and awareness at my activity to keep myself on the ‘look out’ for a better way of doing the same thing ! Joy got started seeping in. When I am on the ‘look out’ for something, boredom is unable to gain entry into me! Innovation was something that I could never pull out of my self, my mind, or my pint-sized brains. It had to just ‘occur’ (like my meditations :)) and I didn’t try to look out for ‘innovation’ each time, though maya-madam decided to be liberal to me, as a reward for doing something with zero-expectations)....
As a by product of the sequence of these guidelines I had set up for myself, I found that my mind’s faculties have slowed down its aging. If ‘memory’ and its failing seems to us as a component of the mind, well.... I am no exception. I too tend to forget things, as I age! But, when i decide to remember something, that ‘focus, involvement, etc’ takes over from the auto-pilot-mode of aging memory:))

What I would suggest is....
try to focus a bit more on very routine and simple tasks that we do, despite our age! If possible do it a bit leisurely, very consciously, and get-involved! If this doesn’t work, there is nothing to lose! We did a very routine job in a better way. So, drop this idea if it doesn’t work. It worked for me too well right from my kid age! The-best advantage I got out of getting involved was, I kept that ‘boredom’ at a safe distance.
Best wishes,


innovatively yours,

psn(23rd May, 2025)