Are You Who You Were As A Child?
Understanding what motivates and inspires Boomers and Gen X since 2022
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
– Henry Ford
Becoming you: Are you the same person you were when you were a child?
Try to remember life as you lived it years ago, on a typical day in the fall. Back then, you cared deeply about certain things (a girlfriend? Depeche Mode?) but were oblivious of others (your political commitments? your children?). Certain key events—college? war? marriage? Alcoholics Anonymous?—hadn’t yet occurred. Does the self you remember feel like you, or like a stranger?
‘It’s not an Oedipus complex’: why Japan’s ‘silver porn’ market is booming
Emi Tōda was in her late 50s, recently divorced and getting by on wages from part-time jobs at supermarkets and an undertaker when she decided it was time for a change. Now 65, she has appeared in dozens of adult movies catering to the “silver porn” market – a genre of films whose enduring popularity reflects Japan’s status as a super-ageing society.
A new start after 60: I learned to tango – now I’m out in clubs till 3am
Victoria Zaragoza-Martinez was retired, with little to do except hate the miserable British winter. At 71, she decided to bring some Latin warmth into her life. For the past nine years, Zaragoza-Martinez has been dancing the tango at least once a week. She has made a new group of friends that she sees at milonga dance parties and has even travelled to Argentina to tango with the locals. Despite now being 79 and the oldest in her group, Zaragoza-Martinez sees the dance as vital to her health and lifestyle. “I don’t feel almost 80 when I dance,” she says. “It’s my life’s passion.”
Young people are doing better (financially) than you think
Baby Boomers are obviously still in control when it comes to wealth in this country. And I know there are plenty of young people who are struggling these days. But as a collective group, millennials and Gen Z are doing much better than the media would have you believe. A lot of young people own homes. A lot of young people have built up some wealth.
5 exercises to keep an aging body strong and fit
Declines in muscle and bone strength start earlier than you might think. Build a smart workout habit now. Muscles begin to shrink in our 30s and continue their downward spiral in midlife, with up to 25 percent of their peak mass gone by the time we’re 60. But there’s hope: Exercise can stall muscle loss, cognitive decline and fatigue. “It’s never too late to start exercising, and it’s never too early,” Chhanda Dutta, a gerontologist at the National Institute on Aging, said.
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