Aimed or Aimless Graying?
It is said that gray hair signifies wisdom. But I say the sign is defeasible. One can age passively and gray unwisely, adrift in the currents of life, pushed and pulled here and there. One can age actively yet with aimless graying, straying from sapience. Yet the wise live mindfully, aiming their graying, and thus earning their steely stripes.
Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle