OLD AGE
The Pleasures of a Well Lived Life
There are three periods in our lives: the youth period or prospective period, the adult or introspective period, and the old age or retrospective period.
Too many there are who look forward to old age with fear or dread.
But old age has its joys and pleasures as keen as youth or adult age, if the youth and adult ages were lived sanely, worthily and properly.
If middle age is spent in getting dollars only, then old age will be days of empty nothingness.
Youth is the planning time of ideals and ambitions, middle age the building time and old age the dividend time.
With many, old age is reading the book of the past, with sadness as the reader recognizes that the ideals, plans and hopes were shattered. As age turns the page in the book of the past he reads one hope after another vanished in smoke.
Anticipation is seldom realized, and this is as it should be, for in time men will learn to live each day for each day's good and each day's happiness.