Read this at http://inoveryourhead.net:
Well, I have news for you. No matter who you are, I know what your future is.
Your future is to grow older, slowly become irrelevant and have outdated views, eventually die and become food for the living.
That is what the universe “wants.”
Scary thought but true. That is my future. In fact, that very well could be my present. Old, irrelevant, and outdated.
So, if I am irrelevant and there are no more expectations of me, then I am free to do anything without fear of failure. Maybe that is what people mean when they say the 50s are so freeing.