Most people over the age of eighty are either the best or the worst people you know. Hear me; I do not mean this in an ageist way. Just the opposite in fact. Most twenty-somethings I know are just kind of mid, as my teenage kids would say. They aren’t saints or potential terrorists; they’re just normal. This isn’t true of most elderly people I know. Run through your mental Rolodex of people past eighty. Most of them are either the most gracious, happy, grateful, patient, loving self giving people you know, just happy be alive and sitting in the room with you, or the most bitter manipulative, spiteful people you know, oozing emotional poison into there family lives and revelling others’ pain. Sure some are in the middle of the bell curve, but most are noticeably one side.
John Mark Comer – American Pastor (1980 – )
From the book “Practicing the Way”