If life begins at 40, it should be slowing down at 60, most would opine. But what if you don’t want it to? What if you still want to be in the eye of the storm? For those for whom the mind is still willing — even if the hips are not — it’s all too tempting to sod the work/life balance and say ‘yes’ to everything. After all, what’s the worst that can happen?
As Madonna, 64, recently found out, the worst that can happen is that you almost die. On Saturday, the singer was found unconscious in her New York home, rushed to the ICU and intubated overnight, her condition so serious that her relatives were ‘preparing for the worst’, according to an unnamed family member. “Nobody knew which direction this was going to turn - that’s why it was kept a secret since Saturday,” they added.
