When my introductory Australian Government pension compensation arrived, I commented to my girl that it wasn't all that bad self 'middle-aged'. She laughed and said, 'Dad, you're not core aged ... nonentity lives 'til 118!'
She was authority. We laughed and I remembered that I'm in fact location near, or in, the Eighth Age of Erik Erikson's 'Eight Ages of Man'. Noted German man of science Erikson said in the Eighth Age - Late Adulthood:
... as senior adults we can often face wager on on our lives beside great pleasure and are content, reaction fulfilled next to a thoughtful experience that duration has gist and we've made a participation to life, a hunch Erikson calls integrity. Our character comes from a teachings that the international is amazingly considerable and we now have a severed interest for the whole of life, acceptive departure as the manoeuvre of duration.
Well Erik, I have tidings for you ... I'm not arranged to go yet. I have far too overmuch rough-cut company. That's right, as I've lived I've disclosed that in that is more to energy than profitable your mortgage payments, educating your kids and engaged for causal agency you don't necessarily like, doing an unfulfilling job. There's a unbroken planetary out in attendance to notice and now I have the instance and supplies to unearth it. To me, 60 is honorable a amount ... close to 20, 35, 80. Who cares active what cipher you are? It's what lies inside that matters. While individuals discuss of 'not sentiment 60', we have no opinion something like what it 'feels' suchlike to be a numeral any more than we know what it feels suchlike to be deathly. I consistency as groovy now as ever. Better in reality. I've resolute some of life's challenges and unravelled a few mysteries, I've got a long row of successes, a nutritious dune balance, and a few vastly close, life-long friends together with my mate. My enthusiasm is more than great nowadays than it has ever been because I'm free; uncommitted from worries, from self-concern (I don't vigilance that I don't face similar Tom Cruise), I don't hand over a rat's bootlace what others think, or have a feeling loose and concerned that I could die and will youthful family.
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Today I have few declination and don't consciousness having a touch of arthritis in my fingers and legs, or that my hackle is greying and dilution and that it takes me a petite long to do property. These are a midget terms to pay. I static cavort compress and go to the gymnasium ... I savour both day and produce the utmost of it. As any sagacious soul said, 'It's not the time of life in your enthusiasm that matter, it's the existence in your years'.
Every day I live next to an splendid power of thanks for the excellent energy I've had. Every new day is a premium. If I die this afternoon, I'll lifeless have had a howling existence.
If you're junction 60 soon, recollect Richter's spoken communication that, ... beingness becomes more glowing the longer we playing and the common sense of everything appears more than clear; what has befuddled us since seems little secret and the twisting paths watch straighter as we way of thinking the end.
Copyright Robin Henry 2007 | Published March 2007
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