And at midlife, we should be amply equipped to have a great attitude. But there’s a very real, and constant danger to get sucked in. Sucked in to the negativity that weakness and insecurity foster.
But.
But there is another (obvious) option, thanks to Buckminster Fuller (and our own intuition):
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Sharing that now makes me wonder if you’ve never thought of yourself as athletic(active), maybe you’ve just been fighting an existing reality.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
This, of course, is what leads us to a midlife crisis in the first place.
We chase crazy dreams and sacrifice many things to get them. Then we get them, and we realize the fulfillment we sought was not contained in our original plan. We are bankrupt in many ways.
In life, we get one, honest-to-goodness second chance to rethink, reprioritize and recommit – our midlife celebration!
By now we all realize that nothing worthwhile is easy.
Which is exactly why I need to, (get to), run this morning. When was the last time you exercised?