Ageing is a privilege. That was the sticker on my fridge when I was in my fifties. As I began to feel the effects of getting older, it changed to: "Old age is not for sissies.” Stories of ageing With time, I realised that both stickers were really an attempt to plaster over all the internalised stuff we accumulate about ageing —everything we absorb into our minds over a lifetime. In this meditation, we study the human mind, which is formed through an automatic, unconscious pr