There are things youth knows only through the arrogance of not knowing. There are things old age knows only because time has taken them away. Growing old is perhaps the most democratic law of existence. No throne has ever negotiated with it. No beauty has ever seduced it. No wealth has ever bribed it. No degree, title, political office or intellectual brilliance has ever persuaded time to make an exception.

Kings grow old. Beggars grow old. Presidents grow old. Celebrities grow old. The beautiful and the ordinary, the powerful and the powerless, all walk slowly and inevitably towards the same horizon. Old age is not a punishment. It is a destination. And perhaps the greatest tragedy is not that we grow old, but that we often arrive there without having learned how to live.

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