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“If you’re 37... Instead of regretting that you can’t wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you’re 90 and you’ve woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.”

Every year I gain, I feel closer to my "real" age. Numbers and birthdays don't scare me, like they do my mom, who would prefer we never mention it at all. I hope I get to keep that attitude all the way till the end.

base-ten number system, we wondered if each new decade of life starting with age thirty might inspire a fresh crisis of meaning. We decided to search for signs that people question the meaningfulness of their lives shortly before the arrival of a new decade, when their age ends in a nine—twenty-nine, thirty-nine, forty-nine, fifty-nine, and so on.

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My happiest days are those that start out like an empty canvas, waiting to be filled up with ideas and creative interactions. But as I spoke with my Taiwanese guide and thought later about the lessons he taught me, I realized that the Western metaphor might not be the right one as I live the back half of my life. It might actually be becoming a hin

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