Or you give a little larger tip than you're accustomed to at dinner. Or you allow the waitress to make her mistake. Now these are usually infuriating things, and it's very easy to go right off. You're more flexible, you can go with life, you can receive life. You lose some of the fears you have about defending what you believe, or what you experience.
Fear is a huge thing for older people.
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way. This suggests that as we age, it becomes easier to forgive ourselves for the missteps and transgressions that have gone before.