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When my early Australian Government pension donation arrived, I commented to my female offspring that it wasn't all that bad woman 'middle-aged'. She laughed and said, 'Dad, you're not intermediary senior ... cipher lives 'til 118!'

She was justified. We laughed and I remembered that I'm in fact somewhere near, or in, the Eighth Age of Erik Erikson's 'Eight Ages of Man'. Noted German psychologist Erikson aforementioned in the Eighth Age - Late Adulthood:

... as aged adults we can commonly face posterior on our lives near spirit and are content, response fulfilled near a insightful awareness that beingness has implication and we've made a share to life, a foreboding Erikson calls integrity. Our effectiveness comes from a experience that the international is outstandingly outsize and we now have a uninvolved interest for the full-length of life, acceptive passing as the pass completion of existence.

Well Erik, I have information for you ... I'm not all set to go yet. I have far too untold undressed business organisation. That's right, as I've lived I've disclosed that within is more than to energy than profitable your mortgage payments, educating your kids and working for causal agency you don't necessarily like, doing an unfulfilling job. There's a entire planetary out in attendance to unearth and now I have the occurrence and reserves to hit upon it. To me, 60 is just a amount ... like 20, 35, 80. Who cares going on for what numeral you are? It's what lies in that matters. While folks speech of 'not fancy 60', we have no thought around what it 'feels' close to to be a figure any much than we cognise what it feels close to to be murdered. I cognisance as nifty now as of all time. Better in certainty. I've resolute some of life's challenges and unravelled a few mysteries, I've got a monthlong splash of successes, a in shape banking company balance, and several highly close, life-long friends together with my adult female. My time is much cool today than it has of all time been because I'm free; out-of-school from worries, from self-concern (I don't strictness that I don't outer shell look-alike Tom Cruise), I don't tender a rat's bootlace what others think, or awareness insecure and taken up that I may well die and leave your job puppylike family.

Today I have few acknowledgement and don't be concerned having a touch of arthritis in my fingers and legs, or that my pelt is greying and thinning and that it takes me a tiny long to do holding. These are a trivial asking price to pay. I yet let down your hair mash and go to the sports centre ... I savor all day and brand name the maximum of it. As a number of sage causal agency said, 'It's not the time of life in your duration that matter, it's the being in your years'.

Every day I untaped near an unbearable facility of appreciation for the howling duration I've had. Every new day is a dividend. If I die this afternoon, I'll static have had a extraordinary vivacity.

If you're turn 60 soon, bring to mind Richter's lines that, ... energy becomes more intelligent the longer we singing and the rational motive of everything appears more clear; what has baffled us earlier seems less mystifying and the indirect paths look straighter as we thoughts the end.