The Thing Nobody Tells You About Getting Older

Here’s what shocked me most about turning 70.

It wasn’t my joints. Wasn’t my energy. Wasn’t even my health.

It was how many people my age had simply... stopped.

Stopped trying new things. Stopped challenging themselves. Stopped believing anything could change.

They didn’t get old and then quit.

They quit, and that made them old.

I see it everywhere. Someone retires at 65 and within two years they’re moving like they’re 85. Not because their body failed them.

Because they told their body the job was done.

Here’s what I have learned: Your body doesn’t have a calendar. It doesn’t know you’re “supposed to” slow down.

It only knows what you ask of it today.

I’m 72 now. I stretch every morning. I move. I challenge my balance. I try things that make me a little uncertain.

Not because I’m trying to be 25 again.

Because I’m trying to be fully alive at 72.

The people I know who are thriving in their 60s, 70s, 80s? They all have one thing in common.

They never stopped asking their body for something new.

What’s something you’ve started doing in the last year that surprised you?

Or maybe you’re feeling that pull to try something but talking yourself out of it.

Tell me about it. I’m curious what’s stirring in you.