Mindset

Wow, you look exactly the same! is meant to be a compliment when you’ve reached a certain age… but why??

What if instead we said,
Wow, you’ve really lived and struggled and triumphed and changed and evolved and become such an interesting person!

You’re a better, wiser, cooler, deeper version of yourself.

And you would smile and nod and accept the compliment, because the modern world valued growing older… valued the markings of endurance. Of survival.