Le età della vita nella lettura di Romano Guardini

The theme of the age of life has always been the subject of reflection because it confronts us with the experience of the uncertainty and fluidity of time. Romano Guardini gives an ethical-pedagogical reading of it, asserting that the seasons of life are a peculiar way of declining to be a person in its entirety. Reviewing his fundamental texts where the subject is addressed, the theologian attempts to shed light on an experience we all go through and on which the spiritually positive task of an existence depends. The passage from one age to the next is always crossed by a crisis: the way in which it is faced and overcome constitutes our being a person. Life is not the random juxtaposition of many parts, but a whole that is present every moment of its journey. This is the totality of life to be preserved and protected at every stage, because each stage is present because of the totality, but also because of all the others. It is an arduous and fascinating journey, in which the acceptance of the phase one is living through is the central act of the ethical fulfilment of life. Accepting what is, has always been the starting point for being able to do what one must.