A friend called in response to an invitation to help Benjamin Franklin celebrate his sixty-ninth birthday.
“But,” said the friend,, “what does this mean, Benjamin? I helped you celebrate your seventieth birthday last year.”
“Yes I know,” said Franklin. “But I concluded that if I were to go on in the way Ii have been going there was not future for me. So, I decided to turn around and go the other way.”
Age brings us closer to our end. Better sometimes is to look backward in order to look forward.
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