That you old, patient and capable of foreseeing the consequences of acts as you are, would not accept the well-meaning words of your friends, is due to the influence of (adverse) fate.
त्वया वृद्धेन धीरेण कार्यतत्त्वार्थदर्शिना। न कृतं सुहृदां वाक्यं दैवमत्र परायणम्॥