I am not a guru on how to age. Quite candidly I skip those “how to” sites. All too often the instruction they provide winds up with a polemic about giving yourself over to whatever version of “the way” for which they’re proselytizing. As if there was one, single path to “the light” or whatever they call the Holy Grail. Which totally turns me off because the suggestion is that what you’re searching for waits for you at the end of the tunnel; a long way down the line given today’s medical advances and the wonderful quality of life we enjoy.
Me, I’m all for the here and now! I don’t hope for a better future because that can translate into waiting around for something to happen rather than taking responsibility for creating the circumstances necessary to make whatever it is you’re “wishing” for, actually occur through your own efforts, not some divine intervention.
I think all too many folks “of a certain age” refuse to buy green bananas, so to speak, because they are so pessimistic about their futures they relegate themselves to lives much more confined than need be.
