When you think of yourself ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, what do you imagine? What is your body like? How is your brain functioning? What does your life look like? Are you actively engaged in living, loving, and creating?
If we are honest with ourselves, many of us feel afraid when we picture ourselves in our later years.
We know what how we want to be, but deep inside we fear that we will be diminished—that slowly, we will find our bodies betraying us, our minds slipping, our lives empty and without meaning or purpose.
Fortunately, science is painting a very different picture of what is possible for us as we grow older.