At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.
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