As in most cases, there are always 3 sides (eg, perceived right, perceived wrong, and actuality; or in some cases: yours, mine, and the correct one) to a story.

On the subject of age/aging, two quotes are presented:

In an 1864 entry in one of his Journals, Ralph Waldo Emerson stated that:

“Old age brings along with its ugliness the comfort that you will soon be out of it – which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are. To be out of the war, out of debt, out of the droth, out of the blues, out of the dentist’s hands, out of the second thoughts, mortifications, and remorses that inflict such twinges and shooting pains – out of the next winter, and the high prices, and company below your ambition – surely these are soothing hints.”¹

On the other hand, the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero emphasized that: “Intelligence, and reflection, and judgment, reside in old men, and if there had been none of them, no states could exist at all.”²

Each quote or a combination of both may be true to you to some degree but always remember that the direction of your life’s journey will, generally speaking, always be “at your command.”

1. Halley N. Great Words of the Masters in Speech, Verse, and Literature. CRW Publishing Ltd 2004. London UK.

2. Prochnow H, Prochnow H Jr. A Dictionary of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire. Castle Books 2005 edition (based on 1962-copyrighted version). New York NY.