and then she discovered, this is laura carstensen, discovered that some of the folks she was followingad a terminal illness. especially, this was done on the west coast in the early days of hiv-aids, and the hiv/aids patients would suddenly shift, even though they were young, to having the older signature. and then she did a study during 9/11. and then when the world became uncertain and fragile and you weren't sure about what was happening, everybody moved to a signature of saying, you know what? i would rather be with family. i want to be connected to those i love. i want to make sure i'm making a difference for them. and that was the revision thing. as time goes on when we are unaware of our mortality, which are most of our lives, then the focus on getting, having, a cheating. when we are nearer, we would become aware of the finiteness, the limitation because of our health, because of the uncertainty of a political atmosphere, for any bride of reasons, it could be ebola, we seldom want to focus in on people with a close with and be connected to others. and i think that that wisdom i

laura carstensen discovered that some of the folks that were following had a terminal illness.this was done during their early hiv/aids and some of the patients would suddenly shift even though they were young to having the older signature and then she did a study during 9/11. when the world became uncertain and fragile and you weren't sure about what was happening everybody moved to a signature of saying i would rather be with family. i want to be connected to those i love and i want to make sure making a difference for them. that was the revealing thing. as time goes on when we are unaware of firm mortality which we are most of our lives, then we focus on getting, having in achieving. when we are near, when we become aware of the finiteness and the limitations of our health and uncertainty of the political atmosphere for any variety of reasons. like ebola. we sadly want to focus on people we are closer with and being connected to others. i think that wisdom is really just a manifestation of having perspective on where we are in life. >> host: it's interesting. i've had patien