I love getting older

I love getting older by Annie Mueller.

One thing I don’t feel anymore is this: I don’t feel that kind of urgent desperation I remember feeling, and often recognize in (mostly) younger people. Maybe that’s not quite the right description. But there was this need to carve out my identity, establish myself, stake my claim in the world. Make people see me. Make sure they saw the right me, the version of me I wanted them to see.

It’s appropriate for that point of life, I guess. But wow, it took so much energy. And now I have all that energy to spend on other stuff.