Lifestyle
There's a version of this generation that did everything they were told - degree, internship, entry-level, work up - and arrived in their late 30s holding a résumé that still doesn't pay enough for a two-bedroom apartment
Most people don't realize that the dishonest person in their life rarely lies about big things — they lie about small, unnecessary things, and behavioral scientists say that pattern is actually the more dangerous tell because it means deception has become their default resting state
Psychology says the generation that raised itself - home alone after school, resolving its own problems, feeding itself from whatever was in the cupboard — didn't come out damaged. It came out with a startling tolerance for solitude that the generations before and after genuinely cannot replicate
Psychology says the loneliest part of having a complex mind isn't being misunderstood - it's understanding everyone else so clearly that you can see exactly why they'll never quite understand you
I’m 65 and the trip that changed me wasn’t the safari or the cruise or the city break — it was the three days I spent in a village in Portugal where I didn’t speak the language and nobody spoke mine, and I sat in a café every morning and pointed at food and smiled at strangers and by the third day the silence had stopped being uncomfortable and started being something closer to freedom, because the performance of personality requires an audience and without one I discovered I could simply exist
