Mag - 50 Something

By Terry McMillan’s fictional best friend (and yours, too)

Unless you actually backed into someone’s Honda, stop saying it. You are not sorry for having a different opinion. You are not sorry for taking the last piece of cake. You are not sorry for leaving the party at 9:15 because your back hurts and the music is too loud. “No” is a complete sentence. “I don’t want to” is a close second. 50 something mag

So go ahead. Be too much. Be too loud. Be too honest. Be too happy. By Terry McMillan’s fictional best friend (and yours,

That’s the secret they hide behind the retinol ads: Once the world stops looking at you like a potential piece of meat or a threat to its hierarchy, you can finally move like a ghost who steals what she wants. Attention? Don’t need it. Approval? Got a closet full of it from decades I’ll never get back. Permission? Please. The Three ‘Un-Learnings’ of 50-Something If you’re going to survive—no, thrive —in this decade, you have to unlearn three things immediately: You are not sorry for leaving the party