Vruddhastavat Chinta Saktaha

Once you are old, all you can do is worry. When you are a child, you just spend your time playing. When you are a young man, you chase the opposite sex and develop worries regarding that. As you grow older, there are no sound reasons to worry because you will have finished all your responsibilities. But by that time, worrying would have become a natural thread running in you, so you simply pursue worries without any reason! I am reminded of a joke:

One old man was sitting with his grandson in the garden. He suddenly looked at the grandson and cried, 'Oh God! I can't hear what you are saying!' The boy was surprised and replied, 'But I am not saying anything; I am chewing gum!'

Anyhow, what Sankara said thousands of years ago still holds true today!

The problem is that all these worries have no purpose. And even when they seem to have some purpose, they are really meaningless if you look deeply into them.