People who have aged gracefully are usually honored in some way. However, being honored itself is a concept and doesn’t matter much in the end. What matters more is that we can see from their attitude and outlook that they have been living a full life. They are simply vibrant.
Many of them were born into environments that aren’t rated highly in the world’s happiest country reports and hadn’t avoided all the hardships of life. So instead of looking at how average people live, we must look at the outliers.
When searching ‘aging gracefully’ on the web, we receive a great amount of good tips on how to do that. An essential part of these tips is how we deal with and handle situations in our lives. If we are living in the world’s happiest country, the environment has a positive effect on aging gracefully, but in the end, it is all about the individual’s own responsibility—how they are dealing with their life. That cannot be changed from the outside and if not naturally in shape, it requires personal inner work.
The outliers mentioned before can handle their life situations gracefully, after all. If asked, they can give tips on how they do it and usually those tips are simple, sometimes ridiculously or annoyingly simple, like ‘don’t worry, be happy’. But don’t let the simplicity fool you, because it’s the key.
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