IT’S COMMON PLACE IN OUR culture to look at ageing as a diminution. Certainly, you say goodbye to things: to the face you once had; to the body you once had; perhaps to ideas you used to hold about who you were or who you were going to become. Yet why does saying goodbye have to be a bad thing? Saying goodbye to what’s old opens up space for you to say hello to what’s new. It is an act that can be an augmentation, an expansion, the very opposite of getting smaller.
Besides, if you are anything like me, you will be bidding farewell to much that is negative and that has never served you: to the insecurity of
