About Getting Older

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

What no one told me about getting older, is that we reach a stage in our lives where we just do what we think needs to be done, and not give a damn what anybody thinks.  The people who are our friends are our friends regardless.  The people who hate us are unlikely to matter. 

When we consider that life is like a caravan of hope moving through the deserts of temporal existence, traversing from one oasis to another, returning to that ocean of Divine Unity, what else matters?  There will be barking dogs, but the caravan moves on.  It is the nature of rabid dogs to bark.  It should never be our nature to leave the caravan and bark back at the dogs.