Forever young

Sixty they say is the half way mark. With a healthy mind in a healthy body man’s life span is expected to be 120 years. Arjuna was whole of 78 years young when he fought in the Mahabarath Yudh. So why this kolaveri about sixty? For the uninitiated, (kolaveri means “desperation to murder”)…so why this desperation / exuberance to kill youthfulness and embrace “senior citizenship” which is nothing else but a euphemism for “old”. Traditionally turning sixty is a socio-religious event in South known as shashtiabdapoorthi, which is celebrated with all the trappings of a marriage except going around fire, assuming that the fire in the belly is still strong. Growing to be sixty should be a celebration of life instead of looking for concessions all around flaunting the age. Look at most of our politicians…they are all (majority of them) past the sixty ‘land mark’ and each one of them without exception is thriving. It is all in the mind…If you still insist it is in the groins…..then listen to this ….. our mind controls the body. I agree that your Driver will take you a little shorter from the tee at sixty than at thirty…all other conditions remaining the same. But a good approach shot with an iron will get you to the hole. So don’t try to hit the covering off the ball from the tee…play safe & slow and you will still get the result as you did when you were thirty! You have to make experience count to compensate for the numbers in years…and stay young forever!

What is this all about senior citizen and all?