"Waiting on you all to be free," so sang George Harrison of Beatles fame. One thing I have noticed about old folks...they are in no great hurry to do anything; they have, it seems, plenty of time left to do the necessary details of their lives. Or, maybe it is just that they cannot move very quickly. But many elders have the attitude that nothing's going to catch up with them if they are not in a fantastic rush. While all the world is going to hell and in such a hurry at that, the older one gets, the easy it is to say, "So be it."
But of course, there are still the young desires in an old body & mind. " I get old, and see that renunciation is what happens, " so wrote the good poet Allen GInsberg in the introduction to the Hare Krishna's Bhagavad-gita.
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