The Ups and Downs of Aging Beyond Seventy Years

Life grows ever more complex as each choice is shadowed by the loss of future time. Hope a positive attitude becomes mellowed in accepting the nearing of the end.Two psychological periods emerge: the first is described as the Summing-Up Period and the second as the Encore Phase in life. The Summing-Up Period of life brings a driving force to attain a congruence of forces within oneself complete unfinished personal tasks and fulfill unsatisfied experiences and compassion a wish to give others now encountering once-familiar problems with compassion and understanding. The Encore stage of life may be more physically passive but it is a time of sayonara of saying goodbye with gratitude and forgiveness for all; of serene-ness an acceptance of all life has given even as sorrows increase and of soliloquys a review of life. All are diffused with gratitude and solace for others.