Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.