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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Follow our passion. Right? Looks good on paper. Later in life it’s the things we didn’t do we regret most.
We know this, but it doesn’t make sense until we’re older.
What other critical life lesson do we know in youth, but don’t comprehend it’s reality until we’re older?
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“What goes around comes around.”
“The circle of life.”
I sat by my father’s side, surrounded by several other midlifers sitting by their parent’s side in the large infusion room. Thankfully it was late afternoon and most, but not all, of our group was there for iron infusions to treat anemia. We were among the more fortunate who visit that room at the cancer center. And yet, the tension was palpable.
My dad was being monitored for an allergic reaction to his treatment, and my anxiety was mounting as I was trying to distract him with trivial banter, running options by him of where to stop for carryout on the way home. We’ve been through so much with him in the past three years that it’s hard not to get that familiar knot in the pit of our stomachs when things are even slightly out of kilter.
Suddenly I remembered the nights when I would come in past curfew. The time I dented Mom’s car. Having to bring home a less than stellar report card. Giving birth to my daughter a month after turning twenty years old. I remembered the look of worry in my dad’s eyes then, and wondered if he was now able to see that same look in my eyes.
Whoever coined the phrase, “Karma’s a real bitch” knew what they were talking about.
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The dinner conversation with close friends last night drifted into why I write five daily, differently-themed blogs.
(… a run of four-plus years and 8k+ posts)
Won’t go on and on about it (because I did that last night), but will say three things:
Ever catch yourself in an unintentional accident that became a miracle?
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The tipping point for knowing when we are officially old…
We are not old until our regrets outnumber our dreams.
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Find the good in every situation. It becomes habit, and our joy becomes prolific.
So thankful that a friend and I had an intense, honest, loving, two-hour dinner conversation, prompted by the friend’s question, “Any feedback?”
It hit me two days later that the risk I took – and the content provided – to share ‘brutally honest’ feedback was never acknowledged.
No, “Thank you Jeff for sharing that with me. I truly appreciate you being so completely and utterly honest and insightful.”
Doesn’t matter.
What matters is I answered the question fully and completely.
Finally.
I can now move on, gratefully.
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