This lowers your capacity for emotional regulation.

You’ll cry more easily. Get dragged into low moods more easily. Simple little things where you’re like ‘dang, that shouldn’t hit so hard,’ will wallop you.

This will trick you into thinking you’re weak and can’t handle life. A loser.

Not so my friend.

It’s a signal that you need a nap, need to allow for more sleep at night, need to prioritize and scale back on what you can accomplish in a day, need to take a mental health day or even a leave.

Something’s got to give.

But!

-Advance Paycheck Loans are a SCAM

-Rent-a-Center and rent-to-own stores are a SCAM

-The lottery is a SCAM

SPEND AS MUCH TIME OUTDOORS AS HUMANELY POSSIBLE

THROW YOUR PHONE IN A LAKE

WRITE HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO YOUR FRIENDS

EXTRACT MEANING FROM YOUR DREAMS

PRACTICE SERENITY

CULTIVATE GOOD POSTURE

WEEP PROFUSELY

DO THE DISHES AS SOON AS YOU'RE FINISHED EATING

LEARN TO WHISTLE

Did everyone consent to being there, did the dancers know their audience, were they paid (looking at the yesses) what the fuck is the problem

I don't know what it will take to break this into your gooey young hearts, but you don't stop having fun -- all forms: physical, mental, sexual, social, literarily, culturally -- as you age

You should be seeking joy and pleasure until the very instant you exhale your last mortal breath

Adults cannot accept that their elderly parents could be horny.

This is ESPECIALLY true if one of their parents has passed. Pop Pop loved Gam Gam! He can’t possibly have found a girlfriend at the home! Or, worse and more common, Gam Gam can’t possibly have found a boyfriend! This must be a sign of senility and the man is taking advantage! (No, ma’am, your mother is fully present and wheels over to Mr. Jones’s room every afternoon like clockwork. They hold hands at bingo sometimes. Please be happy for her. We are.)

80% of people between 50-90 are sexually active. The rate of STIs among nursing home residents is pretty high—that doesn’t happen for no reason.

If you find yourself no longer interested, fine. That's normal.

BUT SO IS CONTINUING TO BE INTERESTED.