Name: 【TED】Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age (Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age)
Uploaded: 2014-10-07T23:33:25.000Z
Duration: 8 min 21 s
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Let me tell you how I feel when I see my wrinkles in the mirror,

and I realize that some parts of me have dropped

“Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Society decides when we are old, usually around 65, when we get Medicare.

But we really start aging at birth. We're aging right now,

We all feel younger than our real age, because the spirit never ages.

She says that everything you see she owes to spaghetti.

I tried it and gained 10 pounds in the wrong places.

But attitude, aging is also attitude and health.

But my real mentor in this journey of aging is Olga Murray.

started working in Nepal to save young girls from domestic bondage.

and she has changed the culture in the country.

Now, it is illegal for fathers to sell their daughters into servitude.

She has also founded orphanages and nutritional clinics.

places and the boundless energy of my youth.

And I'm beginning to lose independence, and that scares me.

But if you accept it, there is less suffering.

After a very bad stroke, his ageless soul

watches the changes in the body with tenderness,

and he's grateful to the people who helped him.

Freedom. I don't have to prove anything anymore.

who I want to be or what other people expect me to be.

My body may be falling apart, but my brain is not yet.

none of the deadly sins that are not even worth the trouble.

It's great to let go. I should have started sooner.

because I'm not scared of being vulnerable.

I'm aware that before, death was in the neighborhood.

I try to live mindfully and be present in the moment.

By the way, the Dalai Lama is someone who has aged beautifully,

but who wants to be vegetarian and celibate?

I want to be the center of attention. I hate to be invisible.

She has been in a wheelchair for six years, after a terrible car accident.

there is nothing more sensual than a hot shower,

that every drop of water is a blessing to the senses.

In her mind, she's still surfing in the ocean.

Ethel Seiderman, a feisty, beloved activist

and her mantra is that one scarf is nice but two is better.

She says that there is only a limited number of ways you can screw,

well, she says it in another way, and she has tried them all.

I, on the other hand, I still have erotic fantasies with Antonio Banderas,

and my poor husband has to put up with it.

I cannot will myself to be passionate at 71.

and when I feel flat and bored, I fake it.

How do I train? I train by saying yes to whatever comes my way,

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【TED】Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age (Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age)

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