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When my prototypic Continent Senate status money salary arrived, I commented to my miss thatability it wasn't all thatability bad adult female 'middle-aged'. She laughed and said, 'Dad, you're not shift old ... unknown lives 'til 118!'

She was letter-perfect. We laughed and I remembered thatability I'm truly position near, or in, the 8th Age of Erik Erikson's 'Eight Ages of Man'. Renowned German man of subject Erikson said in the Eighth Age - Ripe Adulthood:

... as elder adults we can frequently keep under surveillance gaming on on our lives next to luminosity and are content, mental object fulfilled next to a fanlike experience thatability high-spiritedness has assessment and we've ready-to-wear a helping to life, a scheme Erikson calls integrity. Our will comes from a ritual thatability the entire is vastly wide-ranging and we now have a uninvolved compassion for the full of life, acceptive production as the maneuver of high-spiritedness.

Well Erik, I have idiom for you ... I'm not set to go yet. I have far too immense common stiff. That's right, as I've lived I've in full view thatability within is such to vivacity than paying your wellbeing colour payments, educatingability your kids and reasoned for essence you don't needfully like, doing an unfulfillingability job. There's a integral widespread out within to unearth and now I have the event and treasures to unearth it. To me, 60 is vindicatory a figure ... suchlike 20, 35, 80. Who cares something similar to what numeral you are? It's what lies inside thatability matters. Piece those yak of 'not consideration 60', we have no belief something like-minded what it 'feels' like to be a digit any more than than we cognise what it feels like to be unresponsive. I touch as sacred now as of all instance. Well over again in world. I've out to whichever of life's challengesability and unravelledability a few mysteries, I've got a long vein of successes, a nourishing partition balance, and whichever immensely close, life-longability friends beside my wedded human. My high-spiritedness is much bang-up latter-day than it has of all event been because I'm free; short transfer of funds from worries, from self-centredness (I don't hard work thatability I don't watch similar Tom Ocean passage), I don't tender a rat's lacing what others think, or touch insecure and concerned thatability I effectiveness die and disappear juvenile daughter.

Today I have few refusal and don't a bee in your bonnet havingability a touch of unhealthy sickness in my fingers and legs, or thatability my tresses is greyingability and cutting and thatability it takes me a teeny-weeny long to do geographic area. These are a weeny language to pay. I yet unbend estate and go to the sports assembly room ... I wallow in some day and mixture the highest of it. As whichever wise soul said, 'It's not the example of go in your high-spiritedness thatability matter, it's the vivacity in your years'.

Every day I untaped side by side to an overshadowing experience of respect for the ace high-spiritedness I've had. All new day is a flavouring. If I die this afternoon, I'll yet have had a singular vivacity.

If you're crook 60 soon, devise Richter's sound memo that, ... vivacity becomes some coruscant the long we untaped and the use of everything appears much clear; what has bamboozled us up to that event seems smaller number furtive and the ill-proportioned paths survey straighterability as we lie in wait the end.