TAO (To) be 'enough' is ENOUGH

"Withdraw as soon as your work is done. 

Such is Heaven's Way."

(Tao Te Ching, 9)

When we reach 60 or 65 years old, generally speaking, we tend to undergo retirement. We abandon our jobs or professions because we are believed to be old and aged already. And in being old, aside from that of the medical issues that one must not anymore do solid things if he/she already reached such weakening stage of life, a person, since has already ripened, he/she is believed to done his/her part; he/she has already accomplished his/her duties to the point that it is now time for him/her to leave. Now, why is that so? Why can't a person just do more things after that of his/her work, like, you know, "Magis" (Do more!)? What if such person wants to work more, like that of the other elderly people nowadays who desires to earn more money for him/her to sustain his/her needs?

The thing is, it is the Way of things. As suggested above by Lao Tzu, if a person has already achieved and was able to finish his tasks/works, or simply saying, his part/role, such person is deemed to leave. Such idea of leaving though, must not be centrally interpreted as a total isolation due to one's irresponsibility or fear that one would prefer to leave for the good of the many, but rather it is a full-blown act of respect, obedience, and belief that one would prefer to leave because there is an assigned doer of the further tasks, and it's definitely not him. Such person then is expected to, after officially covering up his job (REMEMBER: only if he is finished), give the floor to the more appropriate medium of things. In other words, he is only to take up his mere part; nothing more, nothing less. Thus, when one had already done what is enough, it is then enough.