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Katia Costa posted an update
5 weeks ago (edited)
🎂 🎈 Celebrate Aging: Proof You’re Still on the Guest List
We talk about age as if it were a failing score.
The bigger the number, the smaller the future.
As though life were a carton of milk and we’re all nervously checking the expiration date.
That logic is charmingly wrong.No one knows how long they will live. The years ahead are not a visible countdown.
They are an unknown credit. No app, no dashboard, no sneak preview.Yet we keep treating age as if we had access to the final receipt.
If we insist on using math, the only equation that would make sense is:
death age minus current age equals total life credit.And since the death age is a mystery, measuring life by the years already lived makes about as much sense as walking through a city while staring only at the road behind you.
Technically impressive. Practically useless.Every year lived is not something spent. It is something earned.
Experience, perspective, scars with backstories, laughter that still echoes at inconvenient moments.
People leave this world at every age.
Children. Teenagers. Young adults with unfinished sentences.
The fact that you are here now is not guaranteed. It is granted.And here is the quiet miracle. In this exact moment, we all share the same age.
The age of now. No hierarchy. No competition. Just presence.Today, we have been trusted with one more day.
- To do a little better.
- To love a little deeper.
- To share kindness more freely.
- To feel joy, even in small, stubborn doses.
- To grow, even if growth now comes with reading glasses and stronger opinions.
So yes, age increases.
And thank goodness it does.
It means we are still here, still becoming, still allowed another page.PS. Don’t forget to add aging to the list of things you are grateful for today❣️
