Twenty-year-olds worry about what other people think of them. We don’t care what people think of us when we’re forty. We find out at 60 that they haven’t been considering us at all.
Ann Landers did not coin this age-related statement.
Winston allegedly said, “When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40, you stop caring what everyone thinks, and when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place,” according to a Facebook post that we disproved back in March.
Seven months later, we have an almost identical post, with the exception that the late advice columnist Ann Landers is credited with making this claim.
