I am beyond honored to be called out in this article along with the brilliant Wendy who invoked "pistivity" — a term I don't know how I've lived without until now. You're right, there are far more happy badasses out there living with glee and purpose than pop culture and the media even suspects, let alone would have us believe. Not all of us want to bungee off bridges (I love being in the air too, as long as I have an airplane wrapped around me) but there are unlimited ways to push past what we've been told are the margins of our lives. Cheers!
How I needed this! At 43 and staring at perimenopause's, and realized how much the ageist discourse had gotten into my head without me noticing. But just like you, I feel like I'm just starting! Thank you so much for your writing.
It is insidious and life-killing. I can't count the number of times I've heard people in their thirties complaining about being too old to do X. Dear god. That in fact is what inspired the newsletter. I was sick of watching people by sickened by the false narrative.
"Increasingly, as people age into more time, they also realize that time is limited, and it’s also time to get healthier so that our final years are full of everything we starved ourselves of before now."
Aging INTO more time, meaning retirement, soft-landing retirement, flat-out quitting to have the time (if you've got the money), etc. - THAT is what we just don't understand when young. I think the shift is so personal - the shift to realizing that working to be able to buy another "thing" - well, except my fishing boat ;-) which now enables a lot of wonderful time on the water - is not the road to happiness. It's all about the time.
I am beyond honored to be called out in this article along with the brilliant Wendy who invoked "pistivity" — a term I don't know how I've lived without until now. You're right, there are far more happy badasses out there living with glee and purpose than pop culture and the media even suspects, let alone would have us believe. Not all of us want to bungee off bridges (I love being in the air too, as long as I have an airplane wrapped around me) but there are unlimited ways to push past what we've been told are the margins of our lives. Cheers!
Pisstivity is my new word for 2024. I am having it!
How I needed this! At 43 and staring at perimenopause's, and realized how much the ageist discourse had gotten into my head without me noticing. But just like you, I feel like I'm just starting! Thank you so much for your writing.
It is insidious and life-killing. I can't count the number of times I've heard people in their thirties complaining about being too old to do X. Dear god. That in fact is what inspired the newsletter. I was sick of watching people by sickened by the false narrative.
More great inspiration, I'm taking notes! This is our time to shine.
I'm over 50 and I'm less fragile now than I've ever been.
this, this this!
"Increasingly, as people age into more time, they also realize that time is limited, and it’s also time to get healthier so that our final years are full of everything we starved ourselves of before now."
Aging INTO more time, meaning retirement, soft-landing retirement, flat-out quitting to have the time (if you've got the money), etc. - THAT is what we just don't understand when young. I think the shift is so personal - the shift to realizing that working to be able to buy another "thing" - well, except my fishing boat ;-) which now enables a lot of wonderful time on the water - is not the road to happiness. It's all about the time.
Here's to all the good times ahead!
As best we can. And along the way, there be rocks, potholes and all the rest, as before, and let's find ways to navigate them with humor.