Middle age

"Paul, we have not met for 29 years, since 1981 when we were in from 5 together,"Joseph exclaimed as we shook hands.

One way of telling whether we are growing old is to revisit the school which we once attended. If the students seem "much younger"than when we were there, we are in middle age.

Life, as it says, goes on. Some of us may feel we have left our passions behind, when actually it is the passions that have left us behind. Some imagined that we have mastered life, when really habits which we cannot break have mastered and enchained us.