Alan Watts on Aging

When you grow old, something extraordinary begins to happen. Not to your body, which inevitably weakens, but to your awareness. You start to see time not as a road that stretches endlessly ahead, but as a circle closing in on itself. You realize that all the things you once thought mattered, possessions, opinions, victories, begin to lose their grip on you. And in that moment, a quiet voice seems to whisper, "Be careful." When the body begins to slow and the years seem to slip through your ...