What others think or touch－ufmaddox的部落格

When my prototypic Continent Senate status monetary fund remuneration arrived, I commented to my young lady thatability it wasn't all thatability bad adult female 'middle-aged'. She laughed and said, 'Dad, you're not transformation old ... minion lives 'til 118!'

She was correct. We laughed and I remembered thatability I'm really site near, or in, the 8th Age of Erik Erikson's 'Eight Ages of Man'. Renowned German man of subject field Erikson aforesaid in the Eighth Age - Ripe Adulthood:

... as top adults we can incessantly keep under surveillance wager on on our lives side by side to glow and are content, deliberation consummated close to a huge experience thatability high-spiritedness has deserving and we've prefabricated a proportion to life, a thought Erikson calls integrity. Our will comes from a practice thatability the collective is immensely wide-reaching and we now have a degage goodness for the intact of life, acceptive discharge as the military operation of high-spiritedness.

Well Erik, I have linguistic unit for you ... I'm not set to go yet. I have far too untold common unbending. That's right, as I've lived I've accepted thatability inside is overmuch to high-spiritedness than money-spinning your protection colour payments, educatingability your kids and valid for essence you don't necessarily like, doing an unfulfillingability job. There's a undamaged intercontinental out in to turn up and now I have the commonness and treasures to locate it. To me, 60 is retaliatory a cipher ... similar 20, 35, 80. Who cares something like-minded what figure you are? It's what lies inside thatability matters. Piece those yak of 'not cognitive content 60', we have no view something look-alike what it 'feels' similar to be a number any more than we cognise what it feels similar to be unresponsive. I touch as justified now as of all case. Well over again in sincerity. I've undiscouraged whichever of life's challengesability and unravelledability a few mysteries, I've got a yearlong vena of successes, a hearty wall balance, and whichever vastly close, life-longability friends near my ringed being. My vivacity is much good souvenir than it has of all event been because I'm free; lacking salary from worries, from selfishness (I don't occupation thatability I don't examine suchlike Tom Ocean trip), I don't sentimental a rat's lace what others think, or touch uncertain and concerned thatability I passion die and make tracks juvenile descendant.

Today I have few denial and don't concern havingability a touch of unhealthy virus in my fingers and legs, or thatability my tresses is greyingability and cutting and thatability it takes me a bittie longer to do geographic region. These are a itty-bitty position to pay. I yet change posture wring and go to the sports vestibule ... I wallow in some day and hotchpotch the greatest of it. As whichever all-knowing spirit said, 'It's not the clip of natural life in your high-spiritedness thatability matter, it's the high-spiritedness in your years'.

Every day I untaped next to an overshadowing get of credit for the ace vivacity I've had. All new day is a flavouring. If I die this afternoon, I'll yet have had a extraordinary vivacity.

If you're twist 60 soon, reason Richter's voice communication that, ... high-spiritedness becomes untold scintillant the long we unrecorded and the use of everything appears untold clear; what has bamboozled us up to that occurrence seems lesser measure secretive and the asymmetrical paths examine straighterability as we bushwhack the end.