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while there are some crap things about aging — spend a half hour in any retirement community, and you'll get it before the mah jong tiles have been put away — I wrote a whole book about the things that are unexpectedly fantastic about moving into midlife. To that end, here are 10 of the good things about getting older that you may not know — or may not have thought to appreciate.
10 Cool Things No One Tells You About Getting Older
Seeded on Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:42 AM EDT
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1. You don’t care as much. I don’t mean about the environment or your children or anything like that. I just mean: So what if someone disagrees with your thoughts on Obama’s economic policy, or doesn’t like you or thinks you’re not worthy of an invitation to the "in" mom group? You know what you’re all about and have people who love you, so external reckonings sting less.
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#1 - Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:43 AM EDTFour and six are not true. They're simply lies that we tell to make ourselves feel better about being old. The rest are pretty good, though. Maybe "you can lie to yourself, and happily pretend that you believe it" should be on there, somewhere.
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#3 - Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:43 AM EDTLOL. Yeah, it should be but what does that trait have to do with age?
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