I don't get it.

"If life is a little bit slow and you are a little bit inexperienced when you are thirty years old, I promise you that forty years later you will understand everything there is to know and you will do it absolutely perfect. That's all you need to know. At the age of 70 things could be better than they were at the age of 30. And I wish my mother and all my friends had told me this."

I don't get it depicts some of the experiences I had with Alicia Stroud, a 67 years old English woman who I met soon after I moved to London.