From this one may see that there is no reason to pity old
people. Instead, young people should
envy them. It is true that the old have
no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But the have more than that. Instead of possibilities in the future, they
have realities in the past – the potentialities they have actualized, the
meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized – and nothing and
nobody can ever remove these assets from the past.
…The values of each nd every person stay[s] with him or her…because
it is based on the values that he or she realized in the past, and is not
contingent of the usefulness that he or she may or may not retain in the present.”
–Viktor Frankl
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