Disney Leadership Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Mid Life Moose Wisdom:
Aren’t our days great when we can be thankful for the simple things? Like a long (and maybe boring) plane flight that arrives safely. Like a friend who’s willing to drive the rental car so you can gaze uninterrupted at the beauty of a new place. And like the ability to act like a teenager, while in mid life, when an Alaskan Moose walks in front of your vehicle. Carpe diem.
“”What gift has providence on man that is so dear to him as his own children”. — Cicero
What is at the heart of this, I believe, is that children provide adults with an opportunity to finally have someone in their lives more important them themselves.
This is a feeling that literally defies explanation.
And yes, there are readers here today that do not, and will not, have children. That’s ok. We are all blessed in wonderfully unique ways. I am so thankful my wife and I are blessed to be parents.
A mid life crisis isn’t really a crisis at mid life. It’s simply an opportunity to:
Common sense, isn’t it? Pretty simple actually.
Be careful though. Simple does not mean easy. Carpe diem. 🙂
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.