Getting older doesn't have to limit the possibilities for someone's life. In fact, quite the opposite. Here's why.
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As we age, we fall into a limit-case psychology. We acknowledge what we’ve never tried, probably couldn’t do, don’t have the time or energy to learn, and don’t want to do anyway. That was Glynnis. After banging around a series of PR gigs, she thought she had exhausted that vein. She couldn’t imagine what to do next. “I used to be resourceful, but now there’s nothing left.”
I suggested she scan the job boards just to get ideas about what she could do. “You’d be amazed at what people need,” I said. “Just take a look.” I hoped she’d realize that among all those possibilities—make-up artists, ski instructors, grocery clerks, systems engineers—something would jump out at her. I knew she’d never fit 99 percent of those offerings, but maybe something somewhere . . . .
For starters, Glynnis was exulting that even at her advanced age, she had found new personal resources. She could do what she hadn’t known she could do. The very fact made her happy. It wasn’t as if she’d gone out and learned something; it was, rather, that she had been more than she’d imagined all along. This happens as we age, sometimes. When pushed to the wall, we encounter new aspects of ourselves and deploy them. It can be thrilling.
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