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Saturday, December 9, 2006
Getting restarted 
| | Ronni Bennett's Imagining Old Age is an I-opener. After sharing what various 20-somethings imagine about life in their 60s, she asks, When you were 20, how did you imagine your life would be at 65 or 70, and how is it different now - or not? |
| | I either couldn't or wouldn't imagine it. Often I just guessed that I'd be dead. Premonitions of death persisted until my early 30s. That was when I had a heart scare that really wasn't; but I spent time in the hospital, thinking about The Rest of My Life, and realizing that 1) It could go a long time, and 2) I had no idea what was coming, beyond the next few years. |
| | What's different now is that I'm far more capable, energetic, optimistic and eager to change the world at 59 than I ever was at any earlier age. And I can't imagine not feeling this way for the duration. Or I won't. (What's the upside to pessimism?) |
| | I'm also sure my 20-year-old self (bad student, barely scraping through college, imagining no clear career opportunities, worrying about the sorry state of the world, heading toward an too-early and ill-considered marriage) would be gratified that this is where I am now, even if it took so damn long. |
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