Month: September 2025

The Dilemma of Turning 60

Beyond the number, sixty reveals a question no calendar can answer—what does it mean to stay truly alive?

International Day of Older Persons • October 1

A grandpa once told me, “Sixty is when people stop looking at your face and start counting your years.” For him, the age was both a gift and a burden.

At sixty, society calls you “older.” You gain benefits, respect, sometimes pity. To some, it feels like an award for survival. To others, it feels like the end of something.

He said the hardest part wasn’t the wrinkles or the slower steps. It was being treated as if his dreams had expired. Inside, he still wanted to laugh, work, and love—just like before.

But he also admitted there’s beauty in sixty. The lessons of loss and healing made him wiser. The weight of years turned into a kind of quiet strength, a treasure the young can’t rush to have.

So maybe the dilemma of turning sixty is this: it can scare you, it can free you. In the end, sixty is not the end of life—it’s the start of a different kind of living.

Old • Darem Placer

ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

Thoughts drift like clouds across a fading sky, until you find yourself in a quiet room—Alone with a Piano.

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Alone with a Piano includes Old

The Beauty of Small Goodness

Small kindness can shift the world’s weight—proof that being good isn’t hard at all, it’s actually the coolest way to live.

Inspired by Saint Thérèse’s “little ways”

Sometimes we think goodness needs to be big—like saving the world, or giving away everything we own. But the truth is, being good can be simple.

It could be holding the door for someone carrying heavy bags. Smiling at the security guard who stands all day. Listening to a friend who feels no one hears them. Sharing food when someone forgot theirs. Saying “thank you” even when people forget to notice the effort.

These are not grand gestures, but they carry quiet power. They remind us that kindness is not rare—it’s always within reach. And when we choose it, life feels lighter, cooler, more human.

Goodness is not about applause. It’s about love and humility in everyday moves. The kind of love that doesn’t ask for credit, the kind of humility that doesn’t keep score.

And maybe that’s the secret: being good is not hard. Being good is cool. Because every small act adds up, like drops of water becoming a river that refreshes the world.

Just like Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus taught with her “little ways”—to love in the smallest things, and in doing so, to light the world.

ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

Traces of courage, silence, and sacrifice—this is Saints.

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