aging
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Can You Catch Up From Being Chronically Inert for 40 Years?
Dear Conscience, Things are getting complicated. My parents are getting old and frail. My daughter is a toddler who needs constant attention and care. I haven’t secured a career and my life savings are not on track. Everything is coming at once because I didn’t get to things in the right time. I haven’t cared Continue reading
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Wednesday: Body
Surprise, surprise, I’ve been neglecting my body. You may have picked up on a common theme by now, I am this week taking stock of my lifestyle woes across these 7 concepts. I’ve been able to neglect it because of a “lucky” genetic predisposition: I look fine even if I don’t take care of myself. Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 