Sophia from the Golden Girls is #GOALS

(And what you need to learn from her to live your best life)

She was a tiny, old, sarcastic fireball of a woman on one of the best written sitcoms of the 80’s. Sophia Petrillo, mother of Dorothy, and house mother of all, dropped some of the funniest, sauciest and devilish lines ever heard on television.

Her character backstory was of a woman who left Sicily, Italy for Brooklyn, NY in search of a better opportunity. She took great pride in her mob-esque family and always had a matter of fact philosophy for any situation.

But she also lived her best life, as much as could be lived from the perspective of an elderly woman with arthritis, faltering vision and an over protective daughter named Dorothy.

One of the things I respect about the show is how it humanized the aging population. It brought the reality of their lives into perspective and showed that women headed into their 60’s and beyond are often just as vibrant, sensual and contributing members of society as the more adored youth of Western society.

In America, the older one gets, the less they are valued in many facets of society. We are obsessed with youthfulness and sex appeal, mainly to appease a male dominated idea of what beauty is. The elderly face ageism on the job market when their decades of professional and life…