How to add joy and meaning to your remaining years
Aging gracefullyI had the good fortune to renew a relationship with a friend I had not seen for many years. He knew me during a rough patch and curious about my current frame of mind he asked me, “Are you happy?”His memories of me were fraught with personal and business crisis so it surprised him when I answered that I had never been happier; that my so-called elder years were filled with joy and meaning.Later that day my words sunk in for me as well; never been happier? That was quite a statement. How could it be that in the twilight of my life, decades from the top of my profession, a tenuous retirement fund reminding me of a hundred capricious decisions, a body dealing with an expanding waist and a brain with shrinking neurons - how did I ever conclude, ne...