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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
All Mid Life Celebration posts from 2008 – 2014.
It’s really easy, isn’t it? Why? Because that’s what we do. It’s safe. It’s predictable.
However, I just can’t accept the status quo. Can you? Do you? There has to be more. Intuitively, there has to be more. Doesn’t there?
So if there is more, how do we strive to get it? Why do we strive to get it? Should we strive to get it?
Whatever it takes to give ourselves Peace and Contentment. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, I think:
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark”.
Mid Life learning:
“We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from avantage – and indeed perhaps more”. — Pearl S. Buck
Maybe. Maybe not. What do you think? Many mid life adults are too busy to even contemplate this kind of thinking. I know full well the medicinal affects of a busy schedule. It can be used as a shield to protect us from painful truths.
“In youth we learn; in age we understand”. — Marie von Ebner Eschenbach
Mid Life learning? Maybe. Maybe not.
Mid Life Crisis Choices?
Yes. There are choices all day, every day. Like yesterday, when I posted about the person making snide remarks. My patience was quickly evaporating by the lack of what I would call “personal respect”.
There was a mid life crisis moment of choice – take the high road or take the low road.
So all I can hope to do is make good mid life crisis choices when I’m faced with the high road or the low road. Always take the high road. It’s uphill and more work. But the view is spectacular.
Mid life show off? Depends. It’s all in the eye of the beholder isn’t it? Recently, I heard someone make a few snide remarks about me – “What a showoff. No shirt. Trying to impress people”.
“Dude, are you talkin’ to me”?, I asked impatiently.
“I guess I am”, the person said, also sounding impatient.
“I’m sorry, I’m not trying to show off. Went for a run earlier this morning”.
He then says, “Why not wear (baggy) gym shorts”?
To which I respond, “I’m a sprinter, and sprinters never wear baggy shorts. Ever watch swimmers”?
He quickly says, “Yes, with the skin tight pants”. “Exactly”, I say.
What was interesting was this:
Amazing what a little patience, creativity and self-control can do to get better results – skills instilled in me for the past 25 years. Hope it didn’t look like I was showing off.
What is a mid life crisis?
One thing for sure, it isn’t a mid life celebration.
Just look at the difference in the two words:
I mean seriously, if you could only pick one, which would you pick?