Posted by By J E Solomon
Your real age may not be correct. And you don’t need a birth certificate to argue about it. Date
of Birth is simply a point of reference. You are, in reality, more than what the certificate
suggests you are.
The human being is not just a conscious entity with blood, bones and tissues visible only in the
physical world we have come to identify with. The totality of the human being includes the spirit,
or soul as one may want to call it. Our lives don’t actually start at birth. Birth ushers us from
one life into another, and similarly death takes us into the next.
Therefore, if we are to consider a person’s real age, it makes sense to consider the gestation
period enjoyed in the womb, generally nine months. I turned 60 physically two months ago. Now
going by the Gregorian Calendar or the Christian Calendar that has come to be accepted
worldwide, my age from birth will be counted as 60 years plus 2 months. Biologically, spiritually
and in the true sense, I’m more than that.
It simply doesn’t sound right to me that life in the womb is not given any consideration when it
comes to a person’s real age. Why have we all come to accept a person’s actual age as starting
from life at birth? Why can’t we all, or at least some of us, for the sake of reality, consider a
person’s age from the month of conception?
It may sound strange to some readers, but age used to be counted that way in some cultures long
before human beings and societies became multicultural and nations and regions became globalized.
I’m inclined to believe that if Heaven has a Census Record Book in which every soul that enters the
Earth plane is recorded, the angels will record birth from the time of conception and not from the
day of our physical birth. That would include the nine glorious months of survival in the womb, and
thus be representative of a person’s precise age.
Unfortunately or fortunately some people are born prematurely. But still their actual ages can be
accurately stated bearing in mind that conception in the womb the first month usually doesn’t pass
without notice.
In that sense I would be 60 years plus 11 months. It still wouldn’t be exactly correct because
some months have more days than others although every year has 365 1/4 days except a leap year,
which has 366 days (13 lunar months).
I hope some people won’t start an argument and suggest that we should as well include any
number of weeks or days or even the hours that could also be factored into our ages. Well, it
doesn’t have to be that way. A couple of days or hours can be ignored any way. We could treat
them as figures behind the decimal point. But certainly not the nine whole months spent in the
womb. To me they also count, and they matter most. They are, indeed, the genesis of our true
existence.
The next time someone asks you your age, ask the person which one. The common reference age,
or the real age?