By that time you would have forgotten all of the sweet taste that you had enjoyed at the beginning of the sweet taste. It is best to eat the cucumber from the bitter to the sweet end, rather than from the sweet end to the bitter end. Life is no different than the example of eating the cucumber. All of us, have the choice in our life. If a person put the effort in their life, and worked hard during their younger life, they will see complication and a hard time establishing their life.
Life is nothing but obstacles and trials.
There will come a time were that person will be working hard, or going to school and working hard too. At times there will be feelings like their life is very bad and unbearable to continue moving forward. But as time goes by, the bad times, the difficulties of earning the education, the hard working days, and the pain of life in general, soon will be forgotten because of the challenges, the efforts and the hard work that the person had put in during their youth to overcome all of the obstacles of life. It is that, which makes the person to be able to relax at the end of their elder life with its sweetness and comforts. They would have no security when they got older.