When you get to 90 you are in overtime and a penalty shoot-out looms which you know you cannot win. The Socratic injunction, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” should never be ignored but, certainly now, time must be found to review how you have played the game.
Towards the end of his life the writer Somerset Maugham wrote a short book entitled Summing- Up. Everyone should seek to make an honest summing-up of how he or she has used the astonishing privilege of life. There may even be time to draw a few conclusions and make a few last-minute adjustments.
Everyone should have a checklist. Let us go through a shortened version.
