Posts Tagged ‘aging’

Getting old

Monday, July 25th, 2005

As today is my 31th birthday, naturally, I thought a bit about, well, what everyone (or close to that) thinks about in their birthday (at least after leaving adolescence). I wrote a little about it in my personal blog (in Portuguese), and there’s a bit I want to translate, extend and say here.

A lot of people say something like this: “getting old isn’t really a question of age, it’s about how old you think you are; if you believe you are young, you are young, and so on”.

I believe they’re only half right – and possibly wrong about the fundamental part. It’s not a question of belief, but of attitude.

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