Age-Fluidity
Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
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It would be ridiculous, anyway, to have figured so much out at 35. What are you going to do for the next 50 years? Settle deeper and deeper until you’re dead in the ground? It sounds much more interesting to keep being surprised by who you are and what you want.
I’m not arguing that experience doesn’t bring about wisdom, only that wisdom is an endle... See more
I’m not arguing that experience doesn’t bring about wisdom, only that wisdom is an endle... See more
Haley Nahman • #110: The Trick of the Epiphany
Life is fluid, evanescent, evolving in every cell, in every breath. Never perfect. To be alive is by definition messy, always leaning towards disorder and surprise.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
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
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
Often, there’s a desire to cling onto how we thought life should go, sometimes until it outweighs the reality of how it is going — what makes us happy, versus what we feel should; what is truly stimulating or fulfilling, versus what we’ve been told should be chased and sacrificed for. A question I ponder is: How do we untether ourselves from the pe... See more
Rainesford Stauffer • It’s Okay to Outgrow the Life You Thought You Wanted
person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already li
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