The benefits of aging

As we get older we should become more self-assured and require less validation from others. After all, we've lived a few years and seen how the world truly functions. This should help to remove ourselves from the pomp and circumstance carousel which in society passes for necessity. If we hadn't done so earlier, we stop chasing the wrong things.

Caring about what others think should ideally fall by the wayside and we should be ourselves more than at any time in our lives.

In that regard aging has benefitted me greatly even as I still work towards improvements that have to do with internals and nothing to do with the outside world. Interacting with the public feels perfectly comfortable because I know who I am and don't doubt it. It is when we doubt identity that we worry about what others are thinking about us.

People look to us to be comfortable in our own skin and growing in experience should go a long way towards helping us achieve that goal.