onely Man

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

Professor Hamblin, the Baron’s chief advisor, was talking with an old friend from his days when he was on the faculty at Oxford University. The friend, Professor Arthur Hoffman, was explaining about his growing feeling of loneliness with the passing years.

Professor Hamblin was very understanding about the subject of loneliness with advancing age. The reason why many people have this difficulty is because as they get older they do not realize that they must also pass from one stage of life to the next stage.

Professor Hamblin said that life could generally be divided into stages of approximately 20 each. Professor Hoffman seemed enlightened.

The first stage, from birth to twenty, deals with the concern of the young person as to what kind of a mature adult he or she will become.

The second stage is generally from twenty to forty when the person is engaged in finding a mate, finding a satisfactory job and starting to raise a family. Building a nest is a good example.

The third stage, from forty-to-sixty, deals with being comfortable in providing a roof over one’s head, food on the table and safety and security for the family members. The children grow and eventually leave the nest when they can be on their own, with the parents’ blessings.

The fourth stage is from sixty-to-eighty. This is the time when integrity is sought rather than discussed. It is the time to address the concerns about why we were here and what was our responsibility to all of Mother Nature. It dealt with philosophy of life and the true psychology of our behavior. If we spent too much time looking back or trying to go back to an earlier stage, we will, for the most part, be disappointed and become saddened over the failure.

Professor Hamblin concluded by adding that if we thought about today and planned for tomorrow and the joys ahead, we would not be alone. It really was not about failing relationships, but about the individual and the inner thoughts that the individual had about existence and his relationship with our creator.

One key is simply to stare at the evening sunset and its beauty and the morning sunrise with all the brilliance of colors. It’s all there, but taken for granted too often when other things seem to be more important in the early years of life.

Notice how parents give so much of themselves in raising and looking after the cares and needs of their children that they must postpone the time when one can look at the beauty and wonderment of this green and blue star we all call Earth.