The 3rd Act
“Now that the Woodstock generation is entering our sixties and seventies, we have a chance to change the status quo about the role older people play in daily life … I argue here for a very different vision of old age, one that sees our final decades as a period of blossoming, a resurgence of life that does not chase after our younger years, but instead embraces the gifts that time can bring … [We] can bring a much-needed compassion to a world being rent by impatience, intolerance, and a lack of empathy… What would it mean for all of us to think of aging as culmination rather than denouement? ”
Daniel J. Levitin, neuroscientist
Successful Aging
Life Review
Why does “life review” always sound ominous, as though we are going to focus on that wrong decision or those things that simply went awry? Or we’re proud of our lives and don’t see a reason to review our experience to begin with. Well, the insights that come to us as we look back in a well-guided manner give us such profound acceptance of who we are and what we’ve lived through that even the negative is seen in a whole new light. Besides, it’s not over yet, and we still have decisions to make about who we are and who we’d like to be.