Cre8ting Wellbeing

14/07/2025

"If you didn’t do it at forty, then do it at sixty. The only thing that matters—is that you do it!"

My grandmother, who lived to be 97, always told me that life only gets better with time. And now? I finally understand what she meant.

Age is a funny thing. We live in a world obsessed with timelines—marry by this age, succeed by that age, retire by another. Miss a milestone? Society tells you the moment is gone forever.

But here’s the truth: that’s a lie.

If your twenties were full of doubts, make your forties wild.
If your forties were consumed by responsibilities, dance through your sixties.
If you didn’t burn brightly back then—ignite now.

There’s no deadline on joy. No expiration date on reinvention. No too-late for dreams.

So wear the bold colors. Book the ticket. Learn the language. Start over.

Because late? Is always better than never.

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— Tilda Swinton

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After his wife, Joan, died two years ago, Richard E. Grant began to post videos of himself talking about his bereavement on Instagram, creating a remarkable record of life after loss, Sophie Gilbert writes. https://theatln.tc/hoH3dF0e

An online community quickly formed around Grant’s videos. This month, he published a memoir chronicling the triumphs and hardships of his career, marriage, and journey with grief. The book, “A Pocketful of Happiness,” is titled after an edict that his wife gave him before she died, a reminder to seek out small moments of joy every day.

“She’d never come up with this phrase before in our marriage,” Grant told Gilbert. “I think if one of us had ever said it, we’d have concluded it sounded like something from a Hallmark card. But it’s proved to be a very profound mantra from which to live.”

“[Grant’s] willingness to perform an experience so typically understood as private—to so energetically upend our sense that the ‘right’ way to get through it is stoically, and alone—is striking,” Gilbert continues. “He’s dismissive of the unspoken tradition of giving people space in the immediate aftermath of bereavement, the very ‘time that you need people to talk to.’”

He still has, he tells Gilbert, days where he is so “poleaxed” by grief that the only thing to do is submit to it and wait for it to pass, but, she writes, “he also has good days, splendid days, days with happiness by the bucketload.”

📷: Sophia Spring / Guardian / eyevine / Redux

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