By Jim Selman |
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I am coming to the conclusion that I am a
travel-aholic. Like most ‘isms’, travelaholism is the product of
thinking we control something that we don’t control and, therefore, are
controlled by it. One of the primary symptoms of an ‘ism’ is that we
say we want to change something—usually our behavior—but continue in
whatever pattern it is that we want to change. I protest that I am
traveling too much, while at the same time filling in my calendar with
airports and connections and hotels around the world. So far this year
I have been to Buenos Aires, Geneva, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Paris,
Amsterdam and am on my way to Tanzania before leaving for New Zealand,
the Ukraine and New York City. While this may sound exotic, I rarely
have time to fully appreciate the uniqueness of these far-flung
locations. It is also true that[
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I had a lot of fun yesterday and last night. It was so much fun, I
wonder why I don’t have this kind of fun all the time. I am
distinguishing between happy and fun here. I am happy most of the time
and enjoy what I am doing, but fun is somehow different. The day was
spent playing golf with my buddies and then we all went to an Italian
cooking school and spent the evening laughing and eating an incredible
dinner. But
what we did isn’t the source of ‘why’ it was fun.
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During the five months I’ve been blogging, I’ve spoken with more than a hundred people in their 50s and older about their experience and views on aging. The resounding consensus is that life is great and getting better all the time. It seems to me this is indicative of a real transformation underway: instead of growing older being a story of ‘decline’, a couple of generations are starting to declare that the 2nd half of life might be the best half. Here are a few of the common themes from my conversations:
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