Inner Cleansing

Definitive Times for Inner Cleansing

Especially after one becomes older

Because, there is a tendency to hold on to former things

With age, there becomes a panoramic view

That is absent in the youth

An older person has distance, if nothing else

Many older persons lack experience and other life measurements

They need cleansing, as well

However, this is not, perhaps, what Socrates had in mind with

"An unexamined life is not worth living"

One speaks, here, of intervals in life, even at a young age

For “self-examination”

But for those of us who are older

There are truly definitive times for re-examination of our lives

They are truly "disinctive apparent times"

Have we fulfilled our moral duties?

Have we let go of the falsehoods of life?

Are we responding to life’s moments in the right way?

Are we loving our neighbors?

Older, here, starts at about 40 years of age