Seven Ages of Humankind

You know when somebody's lived beyond seventy, they can't complain if they die cause they've had their chance at living, their chance in Life. This is from a non-socialist, non-egalitarian, apolitical and purely spiritual point of view.
But you'd be surprised how many of us can be judged by this. Because we get our chances, from the moment go, and like the Greats before us, like Gandhi and Mandela and Abraham, we could have chosen one path over another & spent our time and energy on this rather than on that. But we often feel that we have no choice - in our day to day lives. What does that mean, I'm not sure. There are moments of breakthrough in each of our lives I'm sure, but often we strive to reach somewhere and we measure our success in life by how close we got. Perhaps its a matter of having the right resolve, conviction and understanding. But sometimes its difficult to see the wood for the trees, and sometimes you think its not that at all. Some are chosen, others are not.
In any event, with each decade of age you get your chances - for many of us. Sometimes its worth recognising that fact.