As many people get older and older, they come to feel that their future will be happy. However, Japan is becoming the society having old ages the most in the world. It is anticipated that the pension system and the insurance system won't work well. More, the unemployment of many old ages is getting serious problem. So we can't be optimistic. As you get older, your health gets worse, and your physical and mental power get weaker. If additionally everyone doesn't care you, what is the value of being old for you? One can't die easily even though he or she wants to die. How should we live with our declining health? Being old is cruel. Nowadays, in case youngsters are asked, "are you the ant or the grasshopper in Aesop's fables?", many of them answer stately, "I'm the grasshopper". As today's trend is the hedonism of how to amuse themselves, the rate of divorce is rising. And the increasing heinous crimes of youngsters is also serious problem. Children who grow up with video games can't understand other's suffering, since they have enjoyed killing people with buttons, without learning human relationship and experiencing genuine pain. Human beings can't build themselves up in old age. So you should train your body and mind in younger age. And you have to obtain the mind to challenge and learn various things. Especially you have to make sound body and spirit for life in old age. You inevitably come to be old. Being old is miserable. So we must learn how to live like ants which prepare for cold winter.

You inevitably come to be old. Elder people who have sincerity and thankfulness are politely dealt with. But the two properties are things that you should learn in younger age.