A 117-Year-Old Woman Will Teach You to Be Young Again
Maybe humans made life too complicated.
I am a 34-year-old grandpa.
A 117-year-old Japanese woman is showing us up and making us look stupid.
She’s sipping Coca Cola while we’re eating smashed avocado and ruining our day with organic, vegan, no-sugar, no-life Kombucha.
Okay, I’m joking. But there’s a lot we can learn from centurions. My grandma lived until 104. She decided one day to stop eating because she was done with Earth. After that long, can you blame her? My nana is about to turn 100. She is as fit as a fiddle. She has no wifi and lives her version of a dream life.
Maybe humans made life too complicated. Maybe the trick is to dumb down your life like 100-year-olds do.
Kane Tanaka is the oldest living person in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records. That makes her badass. To put her age into perspective, Kane was alive when the Wright Brothers attempted air flight for the first time. That’s a hell of a long time. She has seen the complete transformation of society in her lifetime — from horse and cart, to electric self-driving musk cars without a cd player.
Here’s what a 117 year old can teach you.
