Sir, - Oscar Wilde over 100 years ago actually put his finger on the secret of life in my opinion when he said "The tragedy of life is that the body is born young and grows old and the comedy of life is that the soul is born old and grows young.
Thus, if one believes in eternal life one simply has to count one's age from the end of one's life and thus every year one is getting a year younger. So all pessimism about ageing falls away and one looks forward to meeting one's Creator with an increasingly lightening heart as the years go by. - Yours, etc.,
Ripley Hills,
Bray,
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Co Wicklow.