Tag: shrinking

Psychology says the most isolating part of getting older isn’t having fewer people around you — it’s having fewer people who knew you when you were whole and fast and full of plans, because the version of you that exists in other people’s memory is shrinking at the same rate as the guest list, and one day you’ll be the only person alive who remembers what you were capable of
Behavioral scientists found that the people who become less likeable with age but more respected are operating on a principle most people understand intellectually but can’t execute emotionally — that respect and likeability are often inversely correlated after 60, because likeability requires you to shrink and respect requires you to hold your shape, and most people spent their first six decades shrinking and their last two deciding that holding their shape matters more than fitting into someone else’s frame

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