I marvel at my husband, who’s asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. Not me.If I had a nickel for every time I lay awake at night thinking about something I needed to do the next day or replaying in my mind something that happened at work I’d be rich.
In my 20s I remember being embarrassed when a friend told me I emotionally reacted to a problem that might be rated a two like it was a 10. I actually wished that I had been born less inclined to agonize over even the smallest of things.
I’ve been a worrier my entire life, but thankfully, age has tempered my fretting.
It’s not that I have done anything special—except get older. It seems nature helps us to manage the ups and downs of life more skillfully as we age.
There is a theory called the Paradox of Aging, which posits that peoples’ reasoning changes as we get older.