Success in Life

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Third Stage: Retirement

 

Having fulfilled the duties of raising children, making them adults

capable of standing on their own feet, a new stage of life comes into

being. Up till now you were entirely preoccupied with your family and

your profession, providing for your parents, wife, children and other

dependents. To a certain extent, it was a self-centred life, although

one practised selflessness for the sake of the children and family.

But now one must give way to the new generation.

 

Having retired, with a little more leisure on your hands, and with a

vast reservoir of professional experience and expertise, one has the

time to become a true selfless servant of the society, to become

altruists and philanthropists. This is also the time for husband and

wife, together, to enter more into the inner life, study, meditation,

prayer, pilgrimage. We must realise that a time comes when we have to

say 'Good-bye " . W have to prepare for that last journey.