A Middle-Aged Celebration
We are middle-aged and there is so much to celebrate, including a key factor; we are alive. More alive than any middle-ager ever before us.
It is possible that shift happens at this stage of our lives. The outside doesn’t match the inside. We feel younger, yet wiser. While our bodies are giving us mixed signals at best, we are plowing through and discarding things, situations, people and views that don’t serve us anymore.
We are in better shape, in a better mood, and we are not the same middle-age our parents were.
At least that’s how it feels. Though, I was never in their bodies, it somehow feels that middle-aged people today are younger and more alive, better than ever.
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie
We are not faced by the same fears that we were plagued with in our younger selves. There is integration of knowledge with experience and we finally get to see a bigger picture. We enjoy surround sound and see the forest and the trees.
There are many choices to be had in middle age. There is a spurt of creativity, integration of cognitive abilities, and wisdom emerges.
The bad news is, if you’re so inclined, that there are real generational clashes and storms. These can manifest as family problems, being let go from work, confronting ageism and financial uncertainty for later years.
The good news is; you have the wisdom to craft your life in order to follow your passion. You are privy to a vantage point that you can only have gathered through five or six decades of life. You can enter the later years of your life having made decisions that push you forward towards a happier more peaceful way of being.
Where your newly found values of the last decade can be executed to make the next half of your life filled with joy, peace, health and prosperity. Your mind, brain and spirit are still very much malleable for the better and you continue to grow.
We are the generation that is reshaping this stage of life and adapting it for the better for generations to come. Welcome to a new way of thinking.
There’s more good stuff coming from Sara! Subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.
