Insight Hit: Most people don’t age. They quit.
short, real. Moments that catch my attention — and might land when you need them.
What caught my attention:
“Most people don’t age.
They quit.”
That’s what I wrote on the first slide of a recent Instagram 10-slide carousel.
I had created it based on this post I wrote a few weeks ago: Getting Old Is Just the Cover Story.
And I never expected this to land like it did.
This post cracked something open.
It stirred something in a very short time:
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And comments like:
“Omg.. this is everything. This is so true x”
“I’ve always known this deep down. Thank you for explaining it so beautifully. I especially love the use of ‘safe’ in this context too 💕”
“Oof!! Come with this truth!”
“THIS 👏 another one which is used way too much these days to explain not feeling great is ‘it’s the perimenopause’. As if hormones exist in a vacuum and are not dependent on all kinds of factors in our lives.”
“🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌”
And then there were comments like:
“woooow profound 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I think 🤔 I agree with this lol”
That’s what it looks like when something lands so differently,
your mind hasn’t caught up yet — but your body already knows.
Aging is a topic I often reflect on—
but always from the perspective of what it actually means to feel better with time—inside your own system, not someone else’s definition of decline.
Like DAMN GOOD AGING.
I would NEVER want to go back to my 20s or 30s.
I feel better now than I ever have in my entire life.
I don’t partake in aging conversations where people say:
“Oh, I’m getting old.”
“That’s just aging.”
“Time goes by—you’re not young anymore.”
First, because I can’t relate.
Second, because this kind of talk destroys your biochemical environment—
and accelerates the prophecy of decay faster than time ever could.
What I see:
There are moments when language cuts through.
Not because it’s clever—because it’s true.
These words gave people a new frame for something
they had been living in their bodies for years:
What we call aging is often just the physical cost
of a life that never actually fit.
Energy doesn’t vanish.
It gets buried under misalignment.
And when you stop calling misalignment “age,”
your body can finally stop adapting to the wrong story.
This isn’t about mindset.
It’s not about positivity.
It’s about biological integrity.
Because when you live inside a story that doesn’t fit,
your physiology adapts to survive it.
And the moment you stop calling that adaptation “aging,”
you stop absorbing the lie.
This is about your biochemistry.
This is about how your internal soup deteriorates at light speed
when you lie to yourself for years.
It’s about what happens when you stop negotiating with systems—
internal and external—that were never built for you.
That’s what resonated.
Just a moment of truth that returned people to themselves.
The kind of sentence that lets your body nod
before your mind even catches up.
Naming the truth gives you relief—
from the pressure to think like everyone else,
and succumb to the feeling of aging, decay, disconnection.
Yes, we can’t control the passage of time.
But that’s pretty much it.
We have control over everything else—
especially how vital and alive we feel well into our 90s.
And that?
That is built daily—through your health architecture.
Which depends entirely on how honest you are with yourself.
Nothing else builds it. Nothing else sustains it.
