Reaching the age of 70 feel like nearing an imaginary “expiry period.” One is warned to already go slow, take it easy, to not forget taking the medicine and to avoid slipping on the floor.
The Bible states, “In themselves the days of our years are seventy years. And if because of special mightiness they are eighty years. Yet their insistence is on trouble and hurtful things; for it must quickly pass by, and away we fly.” (Psalm 90:10)