Woman & Home South Africa

Be more Baby! (And other things I learnt from Dirty Dancing)

‘If someone is going to lift you into the air, you must trust them’

The thing I fear most about getting older is living with regret. I have grandparents in their nineties, and what I most admire about them is they’ve grabbed opportunities to travel everywhere, experience anything, and take risks. They can look back and think, “We didn’t waste a second.”

At 41, I’m fearful of taking risks, but it’s easy to end up in a state of paralysis, then consume a bottle of Prosecco and a bag of chips in a fit of self-loathing. A

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