The most unfortunate truth is that the older you get, the narrower your search for purpose becomes.

Age adds critical experiences that begin to make deeply personal differences much later than they ought.

As years pass, my faith becomes more central to my being.

The pursuit of it as the defining meaning of life is much more obvious and clearer beyond what had been present in my merely curious early years.

Urgency to let others know that time is short and decisions made now will determine destinations later drives us old men to instruct young men from experience, love and camaraderie to make changes in themselves and in the world while they still can,
narrowing their own search for purpose and meaning.