My wife and I have been learning about Ikigai and other Japanese approaches to purposeful aging, but she's interpreting it as validation for working until she dies while I think it means finding meaning beyond career, and we're realizing we have fundamentally different visions of what a good long life looks like.
More people experience this than they realize.
Different understandings of cultural longevity concepts are revealing deeper disagreements about how to structure a life together.
“Where Are You with Longevity traditions across cultures?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.