The third age: starting a new way of living

This splendid third age, this new season in the life of every individual who reaches a certain age that seems to upset his whole life making it so different from how it was before; yet, if you think about it, what is it that changes in the individual over sixty?
There is a physical change, this without shadow of doubt; but there is also a physical change between the thirty and fifty year olds;
the different ways of approaching society change - perhaps because the working career has ended - but these changes also occurred, for example, when one finished high school or university and started a career. possible career;
perhaps the sexuality of the individual changes, or the individual's idea of ​​sexuality. It seems clear to me, from what my friend Fernanda told this evening, that emotional transport, even from this point of view, continues to be present in the individual over the years and decades, and how could it be otherwise? on the other hand?
What is it, then that changes, that really changes, that makes it so difficult many times to be the individual who accepts his new condition of life, since this condition, in the end, is not really anymore different, more unexpected, more sudden than all the other conditions of life that have marked the changes in its existence have been?
I do not know if you have ever thought about the problem in these terms, but think about it for a moment and you will see that you too will be perplexed because, after my words, you will understand that there is something that escapes reasoning, something that seems to indicate that this way of being , to live, to relate to what one is at a certain age in reality does not have a real justification; or, at least, it does not have a different justification from states of mind, from states of life that have been lived in the various stages that have gone through in the course of existence.
Io I say that what makes it difficult to face and live what is called "the third age" derives from the path that the individual has made in the course of his life.
You see, all of you who in recent years have followed our words, our teachings, all of you who have tried - some more, some less, some with better results, some with worse results - to know yourself a little more, to go a little deeper into who you are, you should inevitably find yourself at an advantage over someone who doesn't care about these things.
Indeed, how can you - knowing what you know - forget to observe what you do, what you say and what you live?
How can you never be touched sooner or later by the idea that, perhaps, the image of yourself that you have is not the one you cling to, but it has turned into something else that you need to update.
All of you who follow us will undoubtedly be facilitated in dealing with the social and inner difficulties of what is called "seniority" (to use a gentle term).
The fact is that what some fail to understand, and many times limit their way of conducting existence, is the feeling that, once they have reached a certain age, their life is over, it is useless, it is no longer useful to anyone or anything; and, as you said, it is this sense of uselessness in life that causes letting go, abandoning reactions to life and allowing yourself the possibility of discover all those little new things that were not discovered before because other things were observed, more important for the various phases that were going through.
You have this great fortune: the fortune of being able to become aware that even the new phase you will face will not be without meaning or value, it will not be the end of your life, but it will be starting a new way of living; it will be finding new experiences, it will be looking with different eyes and sensitivities at the same things that you might have looked at before and did not notice.
We hope that you will be able to keep this perspective intact in you, remembering that you are what you are when you are; don't hold on to what you used to be, don't worry about what you'll become, but try to accept yourself, what you are in the moment, and every day, every month, every year that you face will always be new, just as you will always be new, and this regardless of your age. Weather