A book for young people with critical thinking and elderly with self-reflective disposition. You can ignore the wheel of life and run endlessly: just like hamsters. However, it is preferable to contemplate the changes, choose the good, reject the bad, accept the inevitable.

All these some people have the right to reject. However, we also have the right to smile or burst out laughing if that someone goes too far. Good aging is, above all, an ugly sight. And it may seem entertaining to someone to watch it. But to offer it as well?

According to Hindu teaching, human life is divided into four periods: the first serves to learn, guided by a teacher, the second to realize ourselves, the third to teach and transmit knowledge, and the last, characterized by a progressive indifference to material goods, to prepare for departure. Today many do not accept the above. Despite their age, they continue to struggle, become burdensome, accumulate. They chase positions, affirmation, social acceptance. They do not know how to slow down, listen, reciprocate.

With the help of a little granddaughter who teaches him daily mischief (and has placed an apple on the bust of Socrates as a hat), Beppe Severgnini reflects on the passing time and the complicated years we live through. "The things for which we will be remembered," he writes, "are not the positions we held and the successes we achieved. They are altruism, kindness, humor, imagination, honesty. The ability to ask the right questions." Our very reputation.