The sixties were the most revolutionary decade of the past century for young people. When viewed as an age, the sixties were the decade when life began anew. Retirement from work was destined to begin at the beginning of the 60s. So, a new life needs vitamins. Sixty actually means renewal.

If you ask why this news and features website was named 60, there is no proper answer to give. It was not because of the need to go at a fast pace, but rather a calm idea to examine everything. The idea that what was written and what was not written over the decades should be directed to cyberspace had been around for a long time. But it was delayed because laziness was more important.

The world needed to be developed more technologically not for the sake of a handful of active people. To satisfy the needs of lazy people like us. If it weren’t for laziness, people would have had plenty of space to walk without finding a wheel. They would have been able to make a fire by rubbing two pebbles together without making matches.

Some time ago, when I was working at Lake House, I had this conversation with my friend Tissa Kumara, who was a talented writer and artist there. I would like to write down what I think while sitting on my chair. I would like to draw pictures as I think. I would like to do all my work while sitting on my chair without traveling or coming to the office. Hearing that, Tissa swore that he had never heard such a boring story in his life.

After gaining some fame, someone invited me to write a letter so that someone could copy my story. Today, like Tissa, I am not at Lake House. Tissa left before me. I retired three years ago.

Two years ago, I started a YouTube channel because of my love for cinema. And also because of laziness. My friends and people who know me told me time and time again to publish what I write as books. I gave up that work because of laziness. There is nothing to copy what I write.

Now the world is shaping up the way I wished. I don’t want to write. There is a phone that I write while reading. In the end, I can only check if it is right or wrong. That is the world I wished for at that time.

So, this work that begins at 60 is a gift to laziness. Not only for me, but also for you. Sixty is a heroic number. You will find not only what has been written here so far, but also what you think of new things. You are also allowed to write here from the sidelines.

It is not limited to one subject. It is about what is thought. About what is thought.

Our mother used to say at that time that the head of a person who is just sitting is like a devil’s skull. So sixty is for us. Let’s give life to sixty. Come on, my dear friends.

So why was this series of inscriptions named 60? Is it a relief again? I am too lazy to answer it now.

-Aruna Gunarathna.