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Is This It? This is It.
You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
from The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
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- Getting older is a relentless process of paring down. Getting older is an exercise in letting go. Let go of anger: “I’m at the age now where you just—you’ll die.” Let go of fitting in, of going up to Rao’s with important people. Let go of other people’s opinions: “That doesn’t mean you don’t take advice and you don’t discuss and argue, but at a cer... See more
from Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
Agalia Tan and added
“The thing that happens in midlife is you start to feel the weight of accumulation of what you’ve acquired throughout your life. I don’t mean just physical things, I mean friends, responsibilities, the identities, and the invisible name tags that define who you are in the world. You frankly start to feel overwhelmed by all that accumulat
... See morefrom Chip Conley: Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal - The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes by Chip Conley
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- But here’s what we do know as we age: we come to realise that ‘out there’ is not a place in the world- it is a place in our heads. It’s an emotional state of mind that requires risk, vulnerability and the timid hope that what you dream of doing might just be of value to the world. Those are hard things to reconcile as you get older. Risk can seem f... See more
from Are you ready to put yourself 'out there'? by Farrah @Substack
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- There’s a pervasive idea, at least among my peers, that [your 30s] should bring about a sense of calm and self-acceptance. We may have dispensed with the precepts surrounding marriage and kids, but there remains a non-specific expectation of “settling in.” Into yourself, into what you want. I took great comfort in this idea when I was in my 20s. I ... See more
from #110: The trick of the epiphany by Haley Nahman
Keely Adler added
- For most of my life I wanted things to go faster. Last week, I realized that now I want things to slow down. That change seems meaningful. I don’t know what’s catalyzed it—getting older, probably. Feeling that I’m finally headed in the right direction. Mindfulness? Whatever it is, I’ve noticed that the present seems more bearable.
from pacing by Ava
sari added
- The tough thing about getting diagnosed with something later in life is that it makes you question everything that came before it.
from TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
Leo Guinan added
This is powerfully true and vividly felt.
It's a question most of us could do with asking ourselves. I think virtually everyone, except perhaps the very Zen or very old, goes through life haunted to some degree by the feeling that this isn't quite the real thing, not just yet – that soon enough, we'll get everything in working order, get organised, get our personal issues resolved, but th
... See morefrom What if you never sort your life out? by Oliver Burkeman
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