Readers of a certain age will appreciate this. The rest of you can aspire to it.

“There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of personal history ad nauseam, with only yourself to listen. But there is also something profoundly liberating about aging: an attitude, one that comes hard won. Only when you hit 60 can you begin to say, with great aplomb: ‘I’m too old for this’.

“This line is about to become my personal mantra. I have been rehearsing it vigorously, amazed at how amply I now shrug off annoyances that once would have knocked me off my perch.”

This advice comes from an essay by Dominique Browning in The New York Times. She primarily addresses women and their insecurities about looks, weight, clothes, etc. Of course, men aren’t immune.

For all of us old enough to deserve it, she offers a wonderful tonic for many troubles and annoyances in life: problems at work, problems with mechanical devices, problems with other people, problems with other people’s politics. Just say, “I’m too old for this.” And move happily on.

Maybe, she says, we need an app: 2old4this. “But, thankfully, I’m too old to need such a thing.”