Psychology says people who describe their 70s as the best years of their life aren’t looking back through a nostalgic filter — they’ve simply reached the age at which the things that were costing them the most have expired, and what remains when the performance obligations, the career pressure, and the need for approval all fall away at once is frequently the first honest version of a person’s life they have ever been able to live
Psychology Today puts it this way: “In old age, a large number of the psychological attachments which normally support our ...
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