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The Biggest Scam Of All: Adulthood
I was on vacation in New York. I was quietly sipping coffee in a third wave coffee shop watching people hurry about their day when I got a text telling me to be careful.
A shooter was on the loose after creating chaos in a Brooklyn subway. The dude of interest might be 62 years old.
It so happens that it was my aunt’s birthday, so I called her and she said: “I turned 65. Too old?”.
Not really, I said. I was thinking of the dude, who could have been quietly retired and doing something for society, instead he decided to cause mayhem.
It is not about the number of years achieved in our age. It’s about the life lived and the impact made. We are living and dying anyway. We just choose to see it and live it differently.
So why not try make the most out of it for us and for others while we can?
I was also thinking that adulthood is such a scam, it is a man-made construct that is supposed to start at 18. Or is it a legal construct when we became of eligible age for driving or drinking?
I was sold a big fat lie about life in my thirties. By 32, I was supposed to be this woman who had it all together and figured out: ahigh flying career, few kids, husband, the…
