It is the challenge of old age to ask questions and make sense of the answers I have ignored so that others can make sense of their lives.  I am no guru, and I accept that I am increasingly invisible to most people in this society. They can stop seeing me, but I won’t stop listening, speaking, and thinking.

The older members of society teach us how to live, but they also teach us how to die, to cross the mysterious bridge between life and death. Sometimes, it scares me, but most of the time, it teaches me, to learn how to live without fearing death. I don’t want to be a stricter man; I want to be a better human.