When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

A life given to something beyond its own comfort does not simply thin out at the end. The body still slows and the losses are real, but what you built into other people keeps moving after you stop. Preparation here is not savings or plans; it is having spent yourself on things that outlast you.

Consider one thing you know that someone younger would be glad to have, and give it away this week without being asked. Write it down, teach it, or say it out loud to the person who needs it. Ageing takes plenty on its own, and this part it cannot take.