LIFE

An Older and Better Me

Over 60 and Better — Good Ways to Grow Old

I’ve created a new publication on Medium, Older and Better. I have initiated this publication because I want to create a scene or a forum to convey the experiences that people over 60 have with getting old in a good way.

Getting old is often seen as a strain and something negative. One may often forget that getting old also has its positive sides and that there are actually many positive sides to getting old.

What do we like to think gets better the older it gets?

— Maybe we’re thinking of wine then. Vintage wine. And we think of cheese. The cheese should not be too young, but it should also not be too old because then it tastes bad and can become inedible.

But what about people?

The publication Older and Better will be a forum for people who think positively about aging and who have stories that they want to share about growing old. We are particularly interested in reading stories about growing old in a good way — life experiences that count positively and that younger people can learn from.

Getting older means getting better.

We do not automatically get better as we get older, but we can get better as we get older and we can do a lot ourselves to get better as we get older.

This has to do with our emotional life and thoughts — how we think and work to facilitate a good life. Many people apparently do not think much about such things, while others are more concerned about it and think that a prerequisite for living a good life as an old person is that one has good health both mentally and physically.

The publication Older and Better will be visible on Medium in a few days. Authors who want to become writers in the publication or who have questions can contact me, Øivind, at [email protected]