Psychology says people who grow solemn and reserved in their 60s and 70s aren’t losing joy; they’re often the ones who spent forty years being joyful on cue, and have quietly decided that joy, from now on, will arrive on its own terms
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At a birthday lunch a while back I watched a man in his seventies sit through two hours of noise without once doing the thing everyone expected of him. No booming laugh at the toast. No hand on the shoulder. He nodded, he ate, and at one point he asked a grandchild a specific question about school and actually listened to the whole answer.
In the car afterwards, his daughter told me she thought he was depressed.
I’ve come to think she had it exactly backwards. She was watching a man who ha
In the car afterwards, his daughter told me she thought he was depressed.
I’ve come to think she had it exactly backwards. She was watching a man who ha
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