The ABCs of Too Old to put up with any longer...

Illustration by Tara Jacoby

Acting like someone has a valid point just to make them feel good when that point is not valid at all

Being overcharged

Cheap ice cream

Doing anything I don’t really want to do, even for a minute

Easier all around to accept that friendships have ebbs and
Flows, and indeed, there’s something
Getting up if I don’t want
Having more than one kid

I used to think that one didn’t make friends as one got older, but... the opposite happens.

Know where to put your energy, because you can suss out up front what the payoff is.

Laughing harder than the thing warrants 

Making excuses—just, why?

Not as if you can’t still get hurt, or disappointed, or profoundly sad and wrecked by things, it’s that somehow your body/brain/heart remembers that you already did this before. You’ll be fine. You always are.

Offended - not worth it

Pretending to like a thing I don’t like (try to be polite about it, but still—why fake it? Ever?
 Quite beautiful about the organic nature of love... Sometimes, a new person walks into your life, and you find you are never too old to love again. 

Ready to stop being young enough to take a certain kind of shit, and to embrace being old enough to stop taking that shit. 

Skipping coffee in the morning - I could barely type those words! NO WAY!!
 "Toxic people? Sour, spoiled people? I’m simply walking away
Universe—or you, yourself—will grant you this reprieve.
Vast number of experiences that once would have knocked [me] down.

Wise enough to see that old has a punch of ownership, of earning power, that [we] like too much to soften.

seXism, which, like poison ivy, is deep-rooted: 

You weed the rampant stuff, but it pops up again. What matters most is the work. Does it give you pleasure, or hope? Does it sustain your soul?

booZe : we are more refined now, so we have cocktails, wine, and beer, but never booZe ;)