Living and learning through your relationships with others
Regardless of how old or young you are, you should always have people that support you and guide you on your aging journey.
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Find an aging mentor. It doesn't matter how old you are. You should find someone that is further down the line than you.
And no matter how old you are, you need to find someone who is behind you in the aging process.
This advice was given to me at a young age from a somewhat older woman who really was very dear to me.
And it landed. And I was 12 when she gave it to me. She said, Juliana, you need to have friends of all ages, and you need to have people to teach you how to age.
And I listened to that. It landed. And it has been an endeavor that I've had my whole life,
and I've given it to other people. She also said when you get to be my age, you need to be a mentor for other people too.
And when you have this mentorship relationship, what's beneficial about it is that you get real. She gave me a list of things that worked for her
and didn't work for her, that were a benefit to her, that she was glad she'd experienced, things that she wished she hadn't done.
And with everything that she gave me, it was always in the context of this was for her. It wasn't telling me how things should be.
It wasn't telling me that her way was the right way and the only way. It was this is how I went about things.
And that allowed me, one, to have ideas, to have modeling of someone who I thought did things in very healthy and positive ways,
and it allowed me to still have room to decide these things on my own. Relationships have an enormous impact
on how we view ourselves, how we view our importance and our place in life, our purpose.
I think it has an enormous impact on what we see in modeling of how relationships should be,
how people who are happy and fulfilled and content behave in relationships, all sorts of relationships
in their life. And we learn a lot. There's a lot that you can learn by doing self-reflections
and doing the work to find out who you are. But we learn different things by being in relationships
with others. We find the places that rub up against others. We can find patterns of how we're showing up with other people.
And we can learn that so much of our reason of being here and connecting with others
is to be in a relationship with others, to learn, to grow ourselves, and to help others learn and grow.
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