Sari Botton

Like, I better just do all the things I always waited for permission for and then just give myself some permission and do all the things I want to do.

And I'm doing them.

A cousin my age died of COVID.

Yeah, I think that was a factor for me.

You know, I started Oldster in August of 2021, I think in the middle of another COVID wave.

You know, there were so many waves.

Yeah.

And I also had just come out of the acute phase of mono.

I got mono in June of 2021, and I was sick for six months.

But the acute phase was the first couple of months after.

And suddenly that August, I was like, I just, I just felt like, wow, I've really been held back.

I don't want to live like that.

I don't want my life to be small.

You know, I, I was sleeping so much and no, I just was like, okay, I'm taking charge of things.

Well, I feel like there's been this tug of war between should and just a free-floating, just do whatever you want kind of attitude that I've been wrestling with that my whole life.

Like, what should I be doing?

And then there's just this whole...

you know, world of possibility where I could just do whatever I want.

I feel like a lot of Gen X lives at that intersection too, between should and whatever.

You know, that these, these rules and then also this like notion like, oh, there's just, just do whatever you want.