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Advertent (adj., add-VURR-tent)
Attentive, like someone trying to prepare a Thanksgiving meal and not like someone trying to get through the work week leading up to Thanksgiving.
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Questions through the decades
Short and sweet today. Alan Wilson has an interesting list of the defining questions for people during each decade of their lives:
• Teens: Who am I, and who am I becoming? Questions of identity.
• Twenties: What will I do with my life, and with whom will I do it? Questions of goals, place and community.
• Thirties: How do I manage my responsibilities and keep renewed? Questions of order and impact.
• Forties: How do I feel about the person I’ve become? Questions of uncertainty.
• Fifties: What is my vision for the second half? Or have I reached a ceiling? Questions of change and intentionality.
• Sixties: What does a person of my age bring to the table? Is there still a place for me?
• Seventies: How do I handle the sense of loss? Questions of grieving and rearranging.
• Eighties: What can I offer a world that sees me as feeble and obsolete? Living with obscurity.
• Nineties: How do I deal with end of life issues? What is my legacy? How will I die? Who will remember me?
In this framework, the idea of an old soul takes on a little more definition and poignancy. It might also explain why some people fit better/worse in their rough age group than others, depending on the questions they're trying to ask for themselves. Interesting food for thought.
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