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My Four Fears for the Future
Embed from Getty Images — When you hit the big Five-Oh, life takes on a slightly different hue. I’ve managed to get through half a century with no broken bones, the usual number of limbs and organs...
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Moment of Truth
In which the author entered a new decade Here’s how a man rings in his fortieth birthday: in full diving gear, he enters a secured cage submerged just below the salty sea surface far off the coast of...
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Embed from Getty Images We are 32. We’re too young to retire but too old to complain. I don’t even think we want to retire. We merely want to do work we love, but walk around trying to nurture passion...
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The Mole Man Cometh
— My birthmark. That is what my mother called the little brown spot sitting in my part about three inches above my hairline. The one in the middle of my left cheek was a beauty mark. The smattering of...
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The Old Guy: Grateful for Life Lived
— If you flip a coin, it lands either heads or tails. Life usually doesn’t occur as either heads or tails. Dark or light? Old or young? Life occurs in the gray. The Yin and Yang. Maybe, life is the...
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Play or Grow Old!
— Do we all stop playing, because we get old? No. In the surprising comedy “Uncle Drew,” NBA star point guard Nate Robinson as Boots says, “We get old because we stop playing.” “Uncle Drew” stars NBA...
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With Sixty You Get Eggroll
— There is something weird about getting older – you don’t. For example, in my mind, I’m still twenty-something with my entire life in front of me. Of course, having my entire life in front of me is...
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My Legacy
This is one of those big picture life questions that always causes some level of anxiety for me. Sometimes it’s hard getting through a single day. Add the stress of thinking about what I want to be...
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5 Signs You’re Living the Tragicomedy of Middle Age
— I first noticed a few dark hairs on my face as I glanced in the rearview mirror on my way to work one sunny morning a few years ago. I’m naturally blondish so the beginnings of an adolescent boy’s...
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Not Old, Just Older
— Getting older. It happens to all of us, men and women. I turned 52 this year. The question for me is, how do I grow older with courage, heart, and confidence? We live in a culture that idolizes...
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Do I Really Want to Be Here?
— It’s January of 2006. I have just graduated from college and I am sitting in the courtyard of a Hostel in Melbourne, Australia. The summer weather is perfect which means the courtyard is a...
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Integrity Bank 17: The Older You Get, The Older You Are
— The older I get, the older I am. Sometimes we get so caught up in how old we are in ways that do not serve us. Maybe you think of regrets, or maybe you just realized that you’re getting older. Life...
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Why Is Everything More Important?
We might take their presence and support for granted. It is natural to have food on the table, to feel comfortable in the house, to buy shoes and coats if the previous ones don’t fit anymore.They take...
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My Top Ten Tips for Aging Well
— Aging is a natural part of life. Whether a newborn or a sexagenarian, you are growing older by the second. But aging does not have to be passive or unconscious, you can determine the quality of the...
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On Aging: Accepting What Is
“Don’t trust anybody over thirty!” My rallying cry during the Sixties, when I was twenty-something, seemingly bulletproof and forever young, living as though those days would never end. Far out...
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Four Features of Growing Older
As someone who has written several books about aging and spirituality, I am often asked to describe the most important issues about aging that people need to know. I often answer with what I call the...
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How Having Children Affects My Feelings About Getting Older
I have mixed feelings about getting older. Mostly, I dislike it quite a fair bit. It makes me restless and sometimes I feel I am running out of time to get myself “really together” or achieve my...
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Aging: 7 Things That Happen To The Body
— Ageing is a long process that begins at birth. But many people don’t start “ageing” until they hit their late twenties and early thirties. If you’ve been at this stage or you’re in this stage, you...
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Real-Life Concerns About Getting Older Take Theatrical Shape at a NC...
By Thomas Goldsmith The knowledge that 50 friends and neighbors will likely die each year clearly touches a community deeply, even when its residents are past 62 and at different levels of health and...
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Getting Old Ain’t Always Easy
My friend John, when he was in his 90s, said to me one day: “Fred … don’t worry about old age — it won’t last!” John was a real stoic. Only two weeks before saying that, he’d also asked me if I had...
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