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On Growing Old

Old is relative, and all my relatives are old

Jon Tillman | Filed Under: Life | Tagged: age
First Published: 2025-02-05| Last Updated: 2024-05-07
Status: in progress| Audience: people worried about their age| Confidence: aficionado

The moment you are more interested in the past than the future, you’re old.

Sathnam Sanghera, The Rest is History (2021-07-01)

No one can really stop growing old; he can only cheat himself by not admitting that he is growing old. And since there is no use fighting against nature, one might just as well grow old gracefully.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), pp 201

I did not plan on becoming a farmer when I moved to Spain. In fact, I had every intention of opening or taking over a small restaurant or hotel in the mountains of eastern Asturias. Indeed, I got far enough down that road to have a completed business plan ready to seek funding for a particular restaurant.