Existential Thoughts

Despite my evening of dance cherades, today was devoted to researching my thesis topic: resilience in elders. As I was reading about elders' coping mechanisms to constant loss and change, I questioned why I was interested in this topic.

For now, I have decided that it is part of my quest to make sense of life. Somehow I expected that by working with and studying elders in my community I would catch a glimpse of the wisdom that they had obtained after a long life of living. After all, someone who is 103 must know the answer to life, right?

However, so far the only thing I have learned is that to "age successfully" often requires that you learn to accept that you never will have the answers and, as a result, you figure out how to master living in the present, for the present.