How to live passionately -- no matter your age

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This week on TED.com September 6, 2014

Talk of the week Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age 08:16 minutes · TED2014 Author Isabel Allende is 71. Yes, she has a few wrinkles—but she has incredible perspective too. In this candid talk, meant for viewers of all ages, she talks about her fears as she gets older and shares how she plans to keep on living passionately. Watch now »

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Join the Conversation   A veteran and his labradoodle: Meet the service dog who helped one man step back into the world »   Started at TED: Find out about a 24-hour day of giving to help fight a truly tough problem » “   Femke Van Wel - Brouwer on Colin Grant: The son of a difficult father   With this talk it's easy to project your own emotions and experiences onto Colin's story. He isn't explaining how he actually tried to murder his father. He's explaining how the 10-year-old version of him experienced the life he had growing up with his family. He's explaining how he needed to be invisible and didn't get much affection, which in the end, every child longs for. Now that he has children of his own with a son about the same age, he's reflecting on his own relationship with his father. Maybe not any wiser, but more able to putting things in perspective and from that point, able to forgive his father. Maybe as an adult now seeing the context from which circumstances derived and as a child you cannot comprehend. I thought it was a nice talk and brave for sharing!"

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