# Still Ahead at 90

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Podcast: [*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*](https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663)
Published: 2026-06-28T23:53:20+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/Still-Ahead-at-90-e3ld8f6
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Duration seconds: 177

## Resource

This episode reflects on a passage from designer Junko Koshino's book — specifically her mother's habit, even at 80 and 90, of saying "my life is just getting started" — and what it quietly does to the feeling of being "already 47." It looks at Koshino's idea that continuing isn't really a matter of willpower: you continue because it's enjoyable, and it becomes enjoyable because you continue. Once you're inside that cycle, she suggests, age stops mattering much. There's also a thought about the shift that happens when something you do for long enough stops being something you do and becomes something you simply are — and how, once that happens, the conscious effort to keep going tends to disappear on its own. A brief reflection, too, on how a single phrase from one person can quietly sustain another across an entire life — and how that sustaining is often invisible to the one doing it. A quiet look at what it might mean to still be ahead at 90, and the small shift in perspective that comes from encountering someone who genuinely lived that way.

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