The International Day of Older Persons: Empowering Seniors to Experience a Meaningful Life
Greetings and Blessings,
I offer congratulations on the International Day of Older Persons and wish all dear seniors fruitful and rewarding times.
Old age is a stressful period, and it carries its own specific experiences. Just as in every stage of life the experiences unique to that time are encountered, which are, in a way, special and exclusive.
The lives of older people, if they lack a cohesive plan for their own perfection and self-transcendence, can turn into a period full of sorrow, distress, and fruitless regrets. So that the remainder of life is also wasted and spent in vain in another way. Just as every stage of human life has its own specific form of life-burning (wasting one’s life) that lets it slip away. This is a time when only life’s hardships and failures remain for a person, as the joys and pleasures, like a volatile liquid, have evaporated and vanished, while the suffering and helplessness have settled in the depths of the heart. It is in this period that the bitter taste of loneliness is felt more than ever before.
The older people who either have no children, or whose children—due to the excessive complexities of today’s machine-like life—don’t have the time to look after their aging parents. This is when those who have not transformed into a radiant sun that only shines, so that due to their psychological maturity they do not need to be loved but only to give love, and who don’t enjoy the independent flight of the children they taught to fly, constantly sink into sadness, embracing their sorrow and sulk, complaining about why they aren’t being loved, continually keeping their eyes on the door to see when it will open and someone will ask about them. This is a bitter and killing wait that also wastes the rest of the elderly’ lives. Also, there is the regret and sorrow for the life that passed “like lightning and wind,” and they didn’t realize when it came and what became of it. Something rarely realized by very few, along with a thousand other causes of grief that darken and obscure this remaining life, one after the other. Whereas old age can be a valuable period for drawing excellent conclusions and writing a unique thesis on life, its concept and meaning. This is when the old person must answer a fundamental question: “What is the benefit of our coming and going?” This is the time when they need to share their precious experiences with the next generation. Even the admission, “We didn’t understand anything about life,” can be useful and beneficial to future generations, as it warns them that this fate also awaits them. Though the new generation, intoxicated by the arrogance of youth, may not pay attention to these messages, saying it is still better than not saying it, and so on…
Erfan Keyhani Halgheh School has launched the Association of Seniors with this great goal:
Empowering seniors to experience a meaningful and active life, to discover themselves, and find something that ensures they never feel lonely, by reaching a psychological maturity in which they shine like the sun and are the ones who immerse others in their affection, no longer waiting for love, or begging for love… This also involves achieving the ability to play an effective role in charitable and humanitarian activities and in transferring their valuable experiences to other generations, and so forth.
Through the link for the Seniors’ Association, you can view interesting reports of the dear seniors who have already embarked on this exalted path and immerse yourself in the joy arising from such happiness.
https://halghehassociation.com/
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All enthusiasts and activists in this field are invited to join this organization and step onto the path of individual transcendence, preservation of human dignity, and the effective participation of the older people in building a conscious and dynamic society. Therefore, all those who wish to establish a seniors’ association can do so through the link below and contribute to this humanitarian effort:
halghehassociation.com/registration-association
Mohammad Ali Taheri
The Founder of Erfan Keyhani Halgheh & Taheri Peace Organization
Toronto, October 1, 2025 / Mehr 9, 1404
