If life is after 50 years?

I often hear the expression that life after fifty years is just beginning. This is self-deception.
Something can't start at the finish line.
The age of comprehension and understanding is coming. Priorities and desires change. I want silence and solitude more.

Women have this unfortunate "pause". A certain boundary of the beginning of the approaching end. And the man is not far from her either.
Looking back, you realize that you spent most of your life trying to "warm up space." Naturally, to no avail.
In your youth, you live all the time with the idea that just a little more, one more effort and you can live relaxed, resting on the results of your work.
And you can't achieve it in any way. Because you live for the sake of improving the welfare of your wife and children, you pull the strap. And then you get a kick in the ass. And you start everything from scratch.

And only now do you realize that you had to live for yourself. Life is a leap from a woman to the grave. And you need to have time to enjoy it on the fly.
And we spend it on empty arguments, on trying to prove something to someone. Why!!!

Trying to change the world around you is an empty and useless activity. But you only begin to understand this at the age of 50. When no one is interested in your opinion anymore. When you are not needed by your adult children, on whom you spent most of your youth. When you are not needed by your adult children, on whom you spent most of your youth.
When you are considered retarded, stupid and technically illiterate. Because youth is ambitious and believes that older people do not understand new technologies. They consider those who are 50+ to be ballast.
Not realizing that they themselves were the ballast in the life of the older generation and perhaps did not allow the dream of a house on the ocean to come true.