Dr. Andy Galpin

Why?

Because I know I have to carry my luggage throughout the airport.

It's going to be a huge pain in the butt.

I'm not strong enough to put it in the overhead bin.

All the steps, like, I don't want to do that activity.

Why?

There's research now that'll suggest one of the biggest driving factors of social withdrawal as you age is sense of burden.

When people feel like they're a burden to

They don't want to do anything.

Because you've been this healthy, functioning, autonomous being for six decades, seven decades, eight decades.

And now everyone is honking at you.

You know you're holding up the whole line.

The entire thing's going to wait.

And you feel really bad about that.

And so you know you can't do anything about that.

And so you're like, I'm just not going to take that trip.

I'm not going to go to that outing or whatever that thing is.

That becomes a problem.

It becomes a problem because it, as I mentioned, leads directly to social isolation.

Which is a massive driver of long-term joy.