"Middle age resonates with so much loss, profound and superficial; expectations die, friendships fade, hairlines recede, looks change, and health and hope are no longer givens.
It becomes easy to forget the fullness that has come before; self-pity, while a dreary threadbare flannel when worn by others, has a luxuriant silky feel when we wrap it around ourselves.
We may have no idea what will happen next, but it seems ungrateful to complain when there has been so much that was good in the past, whether or not we had the wit to recognize it.
We then find a way forward, despite fear and paralysis. We create boundaries and then we defy them."
Lynn Darling
It becomes easy to forget the fullness that has come before; self-pity, while a dreary threadbare flannel when worn by others, has a luxuriant silky feel when we wrap it around ourselves.
We may have no idea what will happen next, but it seems ungrateful to complain when there has been so much that was good in the past, whether or not we had the wit to recognize it.
We then find a way forward, despite fear and paralysis. We create boundaries and then we defy them."
Lynn Darling
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