Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
I have a wonderful respect for old people.
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.