Midlife can be the most powerful, most productive time of life

Midlife gets a bad rap. Too much negative spin. People start trying to disguise the fact that they are gaining ground on life. Very often we look back with regret, or even horror at how we've spent the time so far. Missed opportunities. Errors in judgement. Embarrassing moments etched forever on the memory of the universe. 

Hogwash. 

You can't take the wisdom from an experiences as you have it. You need hindsight for that. There's the beauty of midlife: you've actually got something to look back on. How many people, in their 20's and 30's are actively applying the wisdom they gained during puberty? Not many. 

Sure, it was a time filled with life lessons. Of course. But what 35 year old looks to those lessons in times of stress? Your 20's and 30's on the other hand, are filled with useful information you can't really access until, well, midlife. 

At midlife, you get to "know now what you wish you knew at 20." You can start over, or keep going, putting into action all the lessons and experience of two decades of adulthood. You can do something completely new, or do the same thing with refreshed vigor and purpose. 

Crisis? Nonsense. Midlife can be the most powerful, most productive time of life if you let it be what it really is: an opportunity. 

Ever forward.

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