On Life in Middle Age

I have found that now that I am older, "everything gets doubly precious, gets piercingly important. You get stabbed by things, by flowers and by babies and by beautiful things just the very act of living, of walking, and breathing and eating and having friends and chatting. Everything seems to look more beautiful rather than less, and one gets the much-intensified sense of miracles. I guess you could say that post mortem life permits a kind of spontaneity that's greater than anything else could make possible" (p.' 29).

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Mills, R. (2006). Leadership in higher education and the second half of life. Education, 127(2), 294-302. Retrieved from ERIC database.