Keep your dreams alive, age's got nothing to do with it
Let the men and women who found success, fame, new directions, love, or just found themselves later in life show you that it’s never too late to change the story of your life
Some days it seems the world belongs to the youth. Twenty-something geeks are becoming tech billionaires, teens are writing bestsellers, college kids are backpacking across the world, and some CEOs are so young, they still haven’t bought their first suit. So it’s easy to think, that for the rest, the time has come and gone – that it’s now too late.
What a pity, for if dreams died with age, if risk-taking had an expiry date, we’d never have heard of…
Morgan Freeman: The deep-voiced actor had been a stage performer for decades before bit roles on screen landed him behind the wheel in Driving Miss Daisy. He was 52 then, an age when some actors had happily retired.
Julia Child: She was 36 when she discovered classic French cooking for the first time after moving to Paris with her husband. Her first cookbook, which simplified Cordon Bleu techniques for America and the world, wasn’t even published till she was nearly 50.
Harrison Ford: He’d still be building cabinets if it wasn’t for a chance meeting with a client, who just happened to be George Lucas, who just happened to be looking to cast Han Solo for a little film called Star Wars. Ford was 30 then. Older than Hollywood hopefuls. Now, he’s a legend.
Caitlyn Jenner: She’d have remained Bruce, Olympic medallist, TV personality and step-father to the Kardashians. She’d also have been unhappily trapped in the wrong gender, never taking the plunge, at 65, to come out as the woman she always believed she was.
Andrea Bocelli:He’d taken piano lessons at six, and could play the flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harp, guitar, and drums. He could sing too. But he spent years as a lawyer before giving in to his passion, and didn’t make it big until he was already 34.
Kathryn Bigelow:She would have remained James Cameron’s less successful ex-wife if she hadn’t soldiered on and made the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker at age 57.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison started writing only at 40. Another Nobel laureate, Mother Teresa, didn’t start her charity in Kolkata until she was 36. Vera Wang, the wedding-gown designer to America’s rich and famous, would have lived life as a figure skater and a fashion editor if she hadn’t decided to get married at 40 and found a huge gap in the bridal market…
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