George Kalantzis
4 min readApr 27, 2024

It’s 4:59 AM on a chilly Saturday morning. As my feet hit the cold floor, a thought strikes me — I’m just seven days away from turning 40. Splashing cold water on my face, I gaze into the mirror and see an unexpected reflection smiling back. It’s me at 60, grinning, whispering across time, “You’ve done good, kid.”

At 40, I’m still a kid in so many ways, still wrestling with the big questions, still figuring out the plot twists of my life story.

George Kalantzis

George is a professional storyteller, a dad to a sassy and adventurous eight year-old girl, and the author Of Nowhere To Go