Sari Botton

The best thing I've learned, the biggest surprise has been how much possibility there is in getting older.

Our culture doesn't want you to know that.

Marketers want to create problems and sell you solutions.

They don't want you to know that there is so much more ahead than we know.

Now, yes, we're doing this in bodies that are being affected by gravity and the ravages of time.

Yes, there are things changing and hurting, but I've learned from my contributors, from commenters, that later in life, there are so many opportunities to try new things, to discover new things about yourself, to take chances at a time when you care less about other people's opinions.

Yes.

And it's bearing out for me.

I am having the best moment of my career at 60.

And I could not have anticipated that.

In fact, I was rather publicly freaking out about turning 60 for about a year and a half.

Every opportunity I got, either on social media or on Oldster, I would say, oh, God, I'm so nervous about turning 60 from the time I was about 58 and a half.

And then I turned 60, and all of a sudden, things are going so well for me.

And I'm at the top of my game.

I've got so much experience and skill.

You know, you...

you really come into your own in a way later that you couldn't have earlier.

So it's been a wonderful surprise to learn that things are getting better for me after turning 60.

You know, when you hit a certain age, it's like, okay, now's the time you pull back.

And you're like, no.