Jacques who? My reaction too but when I read an interesting article where it quoted some ideas he had written in his later years, his truth resonated with mine.
Here are a few of the gems I liked best:
"We live longer, it is true, but often without much enjoyment of old age."
"One should not live to so advanced an age. One tends to become indifferent to things one should be be indifferent about - manifestations of good and evil in the world, for example, or the obligations .... incurred when people ask something of one."
On becoming an academic he said it was "kind of a Why not? instead of Yes, by all means."
I like these shifts in perspectives. Perhaps because I am now 60, I am seeking and recognizing the wisdom, candour and refreshing humour of those who are older than I.
A 92 year old woman was being highlighted in Relief Society the other night and she announced that she had just lost her job. She had been caring for a man in his mid 80s for over a year. She wondered what she would do with her new found freedom. She put my 60 into a new light.
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