Midlife, Mortality, and Mindset

Having fewer years ahead than behind is sobering

Tracy Gerhardt Cooper
Middle-Pause
Published in
5 min readMar 24, 2024

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A new decade of reckoning

Turning 50 recently has made me do a lot more thinking about my health than I used to. Eating too many Doritos and staying up too late is the stuff of younger folks who still have more than half their lives ahead of them.

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