Living Long: Insights on Aging and Creativity

Daily writing prompt

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

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It depends on what your definition of living a very long life is?

I’m at that age where most of my friends have retired.

But as I see it, I’m just getting started. I’m writing books these days. I’m writing about life. I’m writing about those transformative moments that change you forever. I look at the world, and I see our world has changed. We haven’t. We’re still the same creature we were when the model came out.

That means we face the same challenges and fears. they might have taken a slightly different form, but they’re there.

And if my experiences can help one person, awesome!

I want to still contribute to the world. I want to leave it better than I found it.

And as long as I can, I insist on doing it. I will not be shunted off to the side, patted on the head, and told you’re old. As I see it, it’s the same dance, just a different song.

And the day I can’t do something useful in the world anymore, I will cheerfully leave the stage.