The story was originally published in December 2024. 

Does the constant uncertainty of life leave you feeling overwhelmed? Most days, ticking things off our mental checklists — finances, love and career — feels like attempting to hit a bull’s-eye in the dark. And we wonder, is it all leading up to a grand finale?

Mercy Rego (63) wants to give us a spoiler alert: “Everything figures itself out.” 

How can she be so sure? 

Not many decades ago, like us, Mercy says she and her clique were perplexed by the course their individual lives would take. But it was frugal to worry, these women in their sixties deduce as they look back on the years. 

I must admit, the story that I embarked on assuming to be an aspirational travel piece — about a group of women who went on a girls’ trip in their 60s — turned out to be cathartic for me in more ways than one. The adventures of Mercy and her friends make a compelling case for how life needs to be lived rather than ticked off a checklist. 

So how did it all happen, you ask? 

Turns out, a Facebook post, a little stalking, and a whole lot of bravado was what it took. 

“Mom, you know you can find anyone you want to on the internet, right?” Mercy’s son asked her one day. 

Excited at the prospect, the academician’s first thought was to look up her school friends whom she had seen the last of on their class 10 farewell. “We had been together since kindergarten, then moved to different colleges to pursue different streams. Eventually, we moved cities and then countries, got married and went our........

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