If you’re living life alone after 50, read this.
In America, for the past few decades, many people have chosen careers and thrills over marriage. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with staying single. Let me say that right up front. As long as you’re living a life full of honorable pursuits, serving your fellow man, and keeping your focus off sexual urges, you can live a full, happy, healthy life. Those are difficult criteria to maintain over the long haul. But if you’re up to it, life alone after 50 could be awesome. I’ve never met anyone who could do it alone…and be happy. I know some who ARE doing it alone, but they’re not happy. Is that you?
If you find yourself, for whatever reasons, living alone in your middle to senior years, I have a couple of things I’d like to help you avoid because I’m confident you’ll be happier when you do. First, is a lack of focus. When you become reactive instead of proactive, you can quickly become at best a gossip…and at worst a vegetable. What I’m talking about is avoiding the temptation to simply kick your heels up on the coffee table at the end of each day to watch TV. You’ll tend to become a parrot. And parrots aren’t exactly thought leaders.
Next thing to avoid in your life alone after 50 is selfishness.
It can be a constant battle for anyone, let alone anyone over 50, to avoid the tendency to be selfish. We humans are born into a selfish nature. And it’s not natural to be unselfish. In fact, it’s basically impossible to be anything but selfish unless you get supernatural help. But you gotta ask for it. No one bops you on the head with a magic wand and endows you with selflessness. You gotta ask God to help you. When you do, He will. Pretty simple…right?
When you focus on serving others and asking God to help you be unselfish, you can avoid the void that haunts so many people in the world. Are you over 50? 40? 60? Lonely? Unfocused? Drifting? Whatever age, it doesn’t matter. If you’re living alone, follow these two simple steps and…
Avoid The Void
You say you live in a house that has no soul.
You feel your time has come and gone.
And so you begin to plan for the end.
And you hope that it’s better farther on.
You say your friends have gone their separate ways
And that they no longer know you exist.
Their progress was fine, but it never came to you.
Your watch is a handcuff on your wrist.
No, you can’t avoid the void”
The darkness wraps around your heart like a glove.
You can’t avoid the void.
Without God’s Love.
You sit and wait for the phone that never rings…
Then play your records from the past.
You did find some who shared romantic hopes.
But you never found love that would last.
chorus
So tell me what’s it gonna be?
Are you gonna give up”
Or let Jesus in”
And begin to live again?
instrumental”repeat chorus and end
© Tony Funderburk 1992
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