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.
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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