Sit on a park bench next to someone eighty and just listen. They know which worries were worth it.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

People at the far end of a life have already run the experiment you are in the middle of, and most of them concluded that far fewer things mattered than they once believed. That view is not available from anyone your own age. It is also given away freely and almost never asked for.

Find an older person in your family or on your street and ask what they worried about at your age and how it turned out. Listen without steering it anywhere. You will get a short list of what actually counted, and it is usually people rather than achievements.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which older person could tell you what actually mattered?

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