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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Turning 40

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"I look back at my­self at ten, 14, 20... and re­mem­ber who I thought I was and who I thought I would be­come. The truth is that I was some­times some­thing like I thought. But most­ly, not. I was most­ly a lot bet­ter than I imag­ined I was. I was no­bler, smarter, more gift­ed, more pow­er­ful, more loved that I ever grasped at the time.

"I don't think we can un­der­stand our­selves at the mo­ment when we are liv­ing our­selves. We on­ly un­der­stand who we are and our sig­nif­i­cance in the world when, like an in­sect shed­ding a too-tight skin, we re­vis­it our ex­u­vi­ae and see the shape of what we were."And so I fear we can al­most nev­er be hap­py un­less we ab­solute­ly, com­plete­ly for­give our­selves for the mis­takes that we make, every day, the flaws we per­ceive, re­al or imag­ined, the tiny and enor­mous fears that cap­ti­vate us and con­ceal from us our truths.

"So let us be kind to our­selves. Let us love our­selves now, not wait­ing to love the brit­tle, dry cast off shells of our old selves. Let us love us now, warm and liv­ing and fu­ri­ous­ly grow­ing, chang­ing right be­fore our very eyes and some­times com­plete­ly out of sight." (Be­ing and un­der­stand­ing, Lisa Allen-Agos­ti­ni)If I've nev­er shared this with you be­fore, I hope you en­joyed read­ing it. If you've al­ready read it, do for­give me. I'm 40 and my mem­o­ry isn't what it used to be.

But at 40 I may in fact be twice as smart as I used to be, thanks to the phe­nom­e­non of Google, that ubiq­ui­tous know-it-all search en­gine that can le­git­i­mate­ly be called half my brain.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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