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Age is just a story we choose to believe.

Age is just a story we choose to believe.

Meet Drea Gibson — and the boy from India who learned to rewrite his own script.



Drea Gibson is 40. Mother of four. Retired Army First Sergeant after 20 years and five combat tours. And right now? She’s a sophomore on the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor cross-country team — earning all-conference honors and outrunning athletes half her age.

When I read her story in the Washington Post, something inside me cracked open.

Growing up in India, we were taught a quiet rule: 35 is middle-aged. 50 is old. Dreams have expiration dates.

Then I came to America and watched people start companies at 60, run marathons at 70, go back to college at 40 — and suddenly I realized: Age isn’t a fact. It’s a story.

Drea didn’t ask permission from the calendar.
She just laced up her shoes and rewrote the ending.

Today I’m choosing a new story.
The only real age limit is the one I agree to believe.

Who’s with me?

Inspired by Drea Gibson 🏃‍♀️🇺🇸
Story via The Washington Post

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