From Dr. Oliver Sacks
I do not think of old age as an ever grimmer time that one must somehow endure and make the best of, but as a time of leisure and freedom, freed from the factitious urgencies of earlier days, free to explore whatever I wish, and to bind the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime together.
Doesn't this open up a whole new way of thinking? Doesn't it give you a warm, complete, delicious sort of feeling? Isn't this the best way forward from old to older to o--l--d--e--r?