But the author and podcast host Sam Harris makes the disturbing observation that the same applies to everything: our lives, thanks to their finitude, are inevitably full of activities that we’re doing for the very last time. Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, sinc

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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 remind myself that I am living a life that my great-grandmother (and before) could only dream of — I am financially independent; I have a career; I own my own home; I have a wide circle of dear friends. And aging — despite the attendant medical hiccups - has proven to be a wonder. I am aging into compassion; aging into grace. This is not a thing ... See more