Today I realized I had become an old man. It wasn’t so much my age, although realizing my birthday was fast approaching had forced me to admit more years had passed than were to come. Suddenly becoming an old man wasn’t just a bad attitude, although my attitude had suddenly taken a turn towards melancholy and nostalgia that was a bit unhealthy.
Tag: aging
Every Life Should Have a Noble Purpose
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, only how you are going to live.”
(Joan Baez, song writer and singer)
For the first 48 years I believed I was living. For the next 20 years, I realized I had been dead for the first 48. Now at 68 and just retired, I choose to live with purpose.