I am far from having all of life’s answers — in fact, as I get older, I think my list of questions keeps growing — but I do think there’s value in acknowledging what life experience has taught me.<\/p>\n
Shortly after I turned 40, I kicked off a blog series here called “Things I Have Learned.”<\/a>\u00a0I started with\u00a040 things I have learned at\u00a040<\/a><\/strong>, listing one life lesson I’d acquired for every year I’d been alive, and followed it with guest posts:<\/p>\n I love many things about this series, including the different ways different writers approached the concept and the range of a 23-year-old and a nearly 70-year-old each sharing some of what life had taught them. It was also fascinating to see how life sometimes taught people different and even opposite lessons, yet\u00a0how universal some lessons are.<\/p>\n So a New York Times article earlier this year almost felt like it should have been numbered to 44 and included in the series, as\u00a0Pamela Druckerman wrote about some of what she’d learned heading into her 44th birthday.<\/p>\n\n