How we can, and why we should, embrace our everyday powerlessness

“Maybe an advantage of advancing age is realizing how little power we have. We spend thousands on doctors and drugs, but we can only delay—never permanently reverse—the body’s deterioration. We watch our children do what they will, and finally (sometimes decades later than this should have happened) we yield control. We retire from enterprises we tried to shape in our image only to discover that overnight the next guy’s vision replaces ours.”

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