The word “stress” comes from the Latin word for compression, and that compression is what prematurely ages us—compacting us, physically and emotionally, into a feeling of frailty and brokenness. (“There is no old age like anxiety,” said one of the monks I met in India. “And there is no freedom from old age like the freedom from anxiety.”) To fight against that compression is to open up your life, to create possibility where once there was nothing but pressure. Within that newly opened space, youth has a chance to return.