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Retaining optimism while aging

Photo by Giulia May on Unsplash

One of the more surprising and bewildering side-effects of growing older is losing a sense of belonging to the world.

Amend that: it’s a sense of being important in the world, important TO the world.

In many ways this comes as a relief, at least to me. I felt the weight of responsibility for the world’s ills when…