What Shit Are You Too Old For? | Jezebel
For some reason, this article popped up in my Zite (algorithmically-curated) news feed. It’s great, including the bullet-point list, linked YouTube video, and quotation below:
Back up to that âgeneral caringâ pointâon the one hand, when you get older you actually seem to care more about certain things, including the people you already care about, being a better person, sorting your shit out. But overall you can be so much more selective about what you care about and it seems, at least in my experience, incredibly easy to say no to things you donât really want to do. And whatâs more, itâs easier to know where to put your energy, because you can suss out up front what the payoff is.
When youâre older, it also seems to be easier to identify people who are not worth your time, and to confront problems with your loved ones when itâs worth it, and to know when it isnât worth it. Also, feelings become less mystifying, easier to navigateâitâs not as if you canât still get hurt, or disappointed, or profoundly sad and wrecked by things, itâs that somehow your body/brain/heart remembers that you already did this before. Youâll be fine. You always are.
And finally, the best part of being too old for this shit is being able to say what you thinkâparticularly being able to actually utter that you are, in fact, too old for the shit. Itâs the punchline that, unlike you, never gets old.
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