The Stunning Surprise of Age—and the Overwhelming Gratitude That Comes Along With It - Martha Beck

All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

So maybe it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all.

The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fuelled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible – the quest to become the optimised, infinitely capable, e

maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all.