Lifestyle
If you're over 70 and can still remember exactly where you were when Kennedy was shot — not just the fact but the weather, the room, the feeling in your chest — your memory is operating at a level most people your age have quietly lost
I'm 44 and I just realized the reason I always buy the second-cheapest wine at restaurants isn't because I prefer it — it's because ordering the cheapest feels shameful and ordering anything above that feels like I'm pretending to be someone I'm not
Nobody warns you that the most exhausting part of being lower middle class isn't the lack of money. It's the constant, invisible mental labor of appearing comfortable while calculating whether you can actually afford to be in the room
Psychology says the happiest people after 70 all did one thing in their sixties that most people refuse to do — they grieved the life they thought they'd have so completely that it made room for the one they actually got, and that room is where the joy lives
The real reason your aging mother keeps asking if you've eaten isn't nagging — it's the last form of caregiving she's still allowed to do, and every time you brush it off, she loses another inch of who she used to be
