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What we’re mostly doing at this time in our lives, then, is looking for a story to draw together the messy fragments of everything that’s happened to us and defined us up until now. We need to transform the story we tell about ourselves, to find a story in which we have more agency – and more purpose. The problem is that, in the culture we currentl... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up,” Herzen says. “But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn’t disdain what only lives for a day. It pours the whole of itself into each moment … Life’s bounty is in its flow. Later is too late.”
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The joy of aging isn’t about abandoning our youth, it’s about balancing learned wisdom with childlike wonder, grounded confidence with conscious curiosity, and innate depth with delicious delight.
Amanda R. Martinez • Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
When we were very young, our bodies told us that we could break through the constraints of the mundane world and seize a more colorful, wild life for ourselves. As we grew older, we caught glimpses of lives that looked more exciting and full of promise than ours, through a million shiny portholes, and we began to define joy as something that lived
... See moreAsk Polly • Are You a Settler?
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
Farrah @Substack • Are you ready to put yourself 'out there'?
What does it mean to grow up? It means you have to be willing to give up the stories you used to tell yourself about who you are and what your life is about. It means you have to be willing to take a look at the world as it is and to begin to ask yourself what you want to do with it.