The Note #41
I’m forty. Actually, thirty-nine.
Today, I wanted to share a short excerpt from my latest Letter because I feel very smart about my new theory. Here’s the idea:
“Remove ten years from your age.
Good.
Take me as an example, I am now 39.
Now, feel it. You’re ten years younger, but you know everything you know. Yum!
Great.
Now think of all the things you would do if you actually were ten years younger.
Perfect.
Okay well now go ahead and do them.
Because in ten years you’ll look back and tell yourself you were SO YOUNG ten years ago, and you should have done the things.”
I’ve been applying this and it’s making me feel incredibly lively. It’s not so much about a number. It’s about how we think of ourselves. Is our world closing in on us, or is it a land of possibilities?
Then the day I posted the Letter, I listened to a podcast and a professor said that people who think they’re younger actually live younger, and are measurably stronger, healthier and happier—it’s researched and proven. So now I feel less smart and proud as if I had invented this theory—but still quite lively ;)
So whether we actively embrace ageing as a positive and empowering experience, or we just decide that in our head, we’re 10 or 20 years younger, let’s stop telling ourselves it’s too late, or we’re too old, or we’ve already tried and it didn't work. The best is yet to come!
ALL RIGHT, a disclaimer—some things are actually real, like fertility declining, wine not hitting the same, socks not washing themselves just like magic—I mean, assuming you don’t live with your parents anymore.
I’m not saying be reckless, just cultivate a healthy dose of delusional ;)
Go in peace now, my little spring chickens.
Signed,
Guru Garance.
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marry a younger man like me and you'll live forever in your comfortable delusion that you're younger than you are ;)
At 55, I’ve learned that as we seem to be getting older on the outside, we’re really only getting younger and freer on the inside.
I love what Anne Lamont wrote about aging:
“How to live? Simplicity is so rich. My days might seem infinitely uninteresting to a youthful person. But older age has given me permission to do what I’ve always dreamed of doing: sit around reading, walking, and puttering. Busyness and fear constrict us in youth; fresh air and nature free us in old age.”