Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working. – unknown
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Time is a midlife quality?
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Will we claim our Independence or will we conform?
Will we claim our independence or will we conform?
Simple questions like this are easily ignored.
Why?
Because the list of excuses to avoid answering them is massive.
Because we must choose.
Either or.
We can easily put this off for an entire lifetime.
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Always looking for signs of happiness in midlife?
Always looking for signs of happiness in midlife?
Probably.
Why?
Because most of us are struggling to keep up with the Jones.
Not the ‘Jones’ house, yard, or car, but with the ‘Jones’ apparent happiness.
Social media can become a big smoke screen for what lies underneath.
A deep and dull feeling of average.
Average is only bad if we assign it that value.
But what if average was actually bliss?
And what if it’s not?
What if we are capable of so much more but are afraid to go for it?
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Independent midlife heretic?
(photo: when one season ends, another begins, so they say)
- Are we independent midlife heretics?
- Are we desiring independence from the Herd, status quo?
- Could there be such a thing as a midlife Independence day?
Yes, yes, and yes.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain
Many critics, few patriots.
The cost of midlife personal responsibility is high.
The price of freedom in achieving it – priceless.
No one is going to climb our mountain for us.
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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Everything
(photo: Lorie Sheffer)
“Just because you can’t do everything doesn’t mean you can’t do something.”
So simple yet so powerful, that statement. Think of how many times we don’t do anything because we can’t do “enough”. We can’t solve the problems of hunger, poverty and sickness. We’ve all seen the TV commercial with the sad and unloved shelter pets, waiting for a home. We know that there are miles of roads littered with trash. Monarch butterflies are disappearing at an alarming rate, and the polar ice caps are rapidly melting.
Several years ago, when my daughter was working for a non-profit organization, I asked her about the private donations they depended on to fund their services. She said that they absolutely did depend on those large donations, but that the bulk of their donations were the accumulated monies of small donors. All of those $5, $10 and $25 donations really did make a huge difference.
When we are searching for a pet, we can all decide to visit a shelter. We can all carry a trash bag with us and clean up when we find along our normal walking route. We can all make a donation, no matter how small, to our local food bank, or volunteer a few hours to help sort and distribute. We can stop spraying weed killer on milkweed- the only plant on which Monarchs will lay their eggs- and incorporate them into our landscape. We can smile and say hello to someone, or hold open a door or let the person with only a few items who is in line behind us move in front of us.
If we all do something, that would mean everything.