{"id":709,"date":"2009-01-17T22:43:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/01\/17\/age-with-joy\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T22:43:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:43:59","slug":"age-with-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Age with Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibilities of a mature life often force us to focus on things that are immediately in front of us, and in that sense, &#8220;settling down&#8221; can be a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 But such focus doesn&#8217;t have to translate into a constricted state of mind.\u00c2\u00a0 No one can age well who lets go of their sense of wonder.\u00c2\u00a0 You might find yourself thinking things like, <em>Oh, that museum.\u00c2\u00a0 Been there, done that.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>But if you make the visit anyway, you&#8217;ll realize that what you saw at the museum in your younger years was only a fraction of what your eyes can see now&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>All of us have seen people who&#8217;ve aged with sorrow; we&#8217;ve seen others as well who&#8217;ve aged with joy.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to <em>intend<\/em> to age with joy, deciding that the joy of youth is a good kind of joy, but it&#8217;s not the only kind.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, there is a joy in knowing that after all these years, we&#8217;ve finally grown up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Marianne Williamson, <em>The Age of Miracles:\u00c2\u00a0 Embracing the New Midlife, <\/em>p. 4-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibilities of a mature life often force us to focus on things that are immediately in front of us, and in that sense, &#8220;settling down&#8221; can be a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 But such focus doesn&#8217;t have to translate into a constricted state of mind.\u00c2\u00a0 No one can age well who lets go of their sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}