"You can't fake it forever"
Please have a look at Chris Gonzalez's post on the ways mid-life reveals a person's true character. Here's my favorite line:
. . . mid life is only a crisis for the people who have accumulated a pile of life experiences that have shaped their character into something regrettable.Amen. That'll preach.
posted by Milton Stanley at 2:59 PM
10 Comments:
For me, hitting 40 co-incided with having a 16 year old daughter. Watching her has given me insight into who I was at 16 and how there are things I have yet to resolve, baggage that I have inadvertently brought along with me.
I think a lot of people are so busy with child-rearing that they put their own struggles or issues in a box because they have to deal with the kids. Then, when the kids don't demand as much attention, and there is time, we realize we have not resolve those things.
That was a very good article.
I'd never thought of it that way, Kim, but that may be part of the dynamic behind mid-life crises.
For me, I had so much baggage, I had to deal with it before we got too far into raising children. When our oldest was one year old it really hit me that I had to change or mess up another generation. I'm still in the process of changing, but, praise God, I'm not the man I was at 23.
Glad you liked Chris's article.
That really makes sense. And I'd never thought of it that way.
Thanks for sharing.
Hope you're ready when you get there, Bethany! Peace.
I was awake all night confronting the accumulated junk of my 44-year-old life. How did this all happen? It seems that a person can begin a trek towards a goal, but if the coordinates are off but one degree, the massiveness of the error goes unnoticed until one has traveled a great distance. One degree over a hundred yards is undetectable; but over ten-thousand miles, or 25 years, it is almost beyond correction. Almost.
The whirlwind is indeed what one reaps when one sows to the wind. It is like a snowball careening down a warm hillside: It all gets bigger as it goes. Unless, of course, one is at the top of the hill, and the snowball really does get smaller.
Thank God He's at the summit and the valley, and everywhere in between.
Peace,
Gnade
Wow. That's a powerful quote. It encourages me to build up my life experiences to something that I can celebrate when I'm middle-aged.
Wow, what an extremely good quote. I'll have to use that one:-)
It's amazing how many secular books are out there, glorifying the mid-life experience, encouraging a deeper search for "self-fulfillment." I'm mid-agish, and I don't think a sports car, flashy new wardrobe, trip to Vegas, college degree, or a new spouse will ever fill the void of emptiness found in so many hearts today. The term "mid-life crisis" has been such a joke in society, but the article you referred to truely makes us think of what's important in life...
I've met folks who are withering in their mid-years from chronic bitterness, anger, and a lifetime of regrets.
Praise God, we don't have to live in traps like that. We love and serve a God who can restore what the locusts have eaten, and His mercies are new every morning.
'nuff rambling now:-)
Enjoyed your new posts here. I've been behind in my blog-visits.
Blessings to you and your family in 2006!
I hope you make the most of the almost, Bill. Thanks for sharing part of your own struggles, and you remain in my prayers. Peace.
Glad you found it helpful, Ben. Looks like you're off to a good start, by the way, at Open Switch. Peace.
Thanks, Vicki. Hope your blogging break is a time of rest and refreshment, and that the ministry Isaiah wrote about is strengthening your heart. Peace.
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