I’ve been reading a bunch about this whole aging thing. Also, I have about 20 friends who are marching along with me toward their 80s and above.
While journaling last evening, an interesting observation hit me.
One way of looking at aging is, we all are no longer [fill in the blank, such as employed, married, mobile, healthy] and we are moving toward whatever it is that will define the rest of our lives.
Richard Rohr defines this as liminal space, “a sacred space where the old world is able to fall apart, and a bigger world is revealed.”
I’m scaring myself. I sound too highfalutin. I apologize.
All I’m saying is, as we get older, lots of what we are used to starts to disappear and often we are uncomfortable or uncertain about what is coming next.
I recommend hanging out with the discomfort. There’s something there.