Summary: When is old too old? When are you too old to reinvent? What age is the right age to stop being curious, passionate, evolving? What age do you look like? Act like? Want to be? In conversation with a dear friend who I hadn’t seen face to face for 10 years, she exclaimed: “Isabel, you haven’t changed a bit. I think you look younger since I saw you last! You don’t look your age at all!” I expressed the same sentiments to her, sincerely awed at how vibrant and youthful she seemed, knowing her 77th birthday was only months away. We hugged and laughed, thrilled to be in person again, grateful that our friendship was still strong, even after a decade hiatus. Over wine we mused, “What does any age look like now?” We agreed, we don’t resemble our mothers or grandmothers. And we don’t even resemble the “us” we’d been programmed to expect by societal norms of decades ago. She’s reinventing. I am reinventing. Most baby boomers are reinventing and redefining. Join us!
