Lotta Noreesjo, 25, Sweden
Interviewed by Bonnie Fatio, founder of AgeEsteem, July 2007, during the YWCA World Council in Nairobi, Kenya.
In Sweden lots of women have careers so are older when they start a family. I think growing older is to have a career, have a family and then to continue a career. Women and men in Sweden are almost equal. Women are getting more pressure to do things, career, etc.
It’s ok to be old in Sweden. When you become retired it is ok for you to have vacation in life. You have had your career and family. Often old people in Sweden are very healthy so they are growing older and older.
My idea of old has become older and older now that I am also aging. When I was younger I thought 25 was old. Now I am 25 and my father is going to retire in 2 years and I don’t think he is old at 64. My grandfather was old He passed away last year. He was 85 years old. But I think the middle age lasts a very long time, from 40 to 70 maybe.
Secrets to aging well: You have to work to have everything stable in your life. I think when you are stable it is easier for you to become older. Balance between work, family and everything so you can be calm in your work, calm in your home and calm in your life.
When you have this calm in your own life, then you can give to someone else. Otherwise it will just be an additional pressure on you to think that you have to give and to volunteer. You have to have your own calm before you can start giving to others.
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