SECOND ACTS LIFE IS LONG. YOURS MAY BE OVERDUE FOR AN OVERHAUL

摘要

My friend meg was successfully treated for thyroid cancer in her 30s, but at every annual checkup afterward she braced for bad news. At lunch after a recent visit with her doctor, she was wearing such a worried expression that we were prepared for the worst. Here's what her doctor had said: "Meg, I think you've dodged a bullet. I don't think that cancer is coming back." Good news! And yet the look on her face was not joy or even relief. Meg had been living year to year. Now, facing the prospect that she might go on living a long time, she felt completely unprepared. As she said, "What am I going to do for 40 years?"