Articles by Freedom in Later Life
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What Happens to the Dreams You Never Followed?
I dreamed of becoming a barrister at seventeen. Life chose differently, and it took me decades to work out what that old dream was really trying to tell me.
What Do You Actually Want From Later Life?
Most of what we want in later life was planted there young. How to tell a real want from a borrowed one, and why choosing it is what freedom means.
What Is It Really Like to Be Old? Diana Athill at 89
Diana Athill wrote about old age at eighty-nine, and became a bestseller at ninety. What she found is not what we are told to expect.