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Life Lessons From the Ever-buoyant and Ageless Shobhaa De
Given that, every morning, I confront the silvered-streaked intimations of mortality sprouting from my head, I am increasingly curious about people who seem to embody positive aging. Folks, who despite their advancing years, are as high-spirited and sprightly as the youngest generations. One of the icons who still radiates the spunk and moxie of Gen Z, even at 73, is the writer and novelist, Shobhaa De.
When Seventy and to Hell With It! beckoned from a bookstore shelf, I bought it at once. After all, De, like the woman in Jenny Joseph’s poem, Warning, is the sort to defiantly “wear purple” and “spend [her] pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandals,” her eyes glinting with an impish irreverence. As De herself puts it, “I refuse to give up and become a harmless old lady.”
The book does not disappoint. This no-holds-barred romp through De’s life and current state of mind invites all readers, young or middle-aged or old, to stop submitting to “rules” that don’t count, and to start living on one’s own terms. To become, despite one’s circumstances, as befikre as possible. Here are some of my personal takeaways from the feisty De.
Carve Out Your Space As A Writer
In her 1929 essay, the author Virgini
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