Marian Keyes shares six life lessons on turning 60: The people we fall in love with are as incomplete as we are

Words of wisdom: bad boys are really just bad men, happy moments are as good as it gets, and stay in your comfort zone

Marian Keyes: 'We’re all just flawed human beings staggering around in the fog doing our best.' Photograph: Alan BetsonWhen writer Marian Keyes turned 60 earlier this month, she celebrated with a family party, Keanu Reeves-themed cupcakes and a birthday cake in the shape of Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel. Her beloved novels including Watermelon, Rachel’s Holiday, This Charming Man, Anybody Out There and Grown Ups, have sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

I wanted the days to be 17 hours long, rather than 24 because there just seemed to be so much to endure. At 5pm I’d be wanting to go to bed but it wasn’t allowed, because there were still several hours to run. But now at 60 I’m looking back and I’m thinking: God, that was fast.As human beings we have got into the habit of thinking that these little bursts of joy we experience are like movie trailers or previews of how we will feel when everything in our lives is fixed.

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