Late Life

Sooner or later, it hits us – old age.

For people of my generation this can be a shock – we weren’t prepared for this. You get creaky. You can’t handle things you used to be able to do.

Gravity gets heavier, bodily frailties set in, people forget you and doctors start taking over your life.

But there’s something special about this last stage of life – it’s a chance to complete the story of our lives and bring things to some sort of conclusion. If we ignore this, there can be quite a lot of baggage to carry into the afterlife.

This is about the deepest and potentially the richest time of our life-cycle, when we can advance psycho-spiritually in ways that, earlier in life, we used to pay large amounts for, going on courses and retreats and doing snazzy practices.

I can’t chop logs and climb hills like I used to, but another mobility has arisen instead, deep down inside.

Getting old is about growing wiser, not getting stiff, conservative and grumpy.

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With love, Palden