Weird + Wonderful.

MORNING THOUGHTS ☕️

I read this statement yesterday as I was scrolling along:

I hope you don’t long for things just because they’re familiar.

Funny. Just the night before I’d said to Keith that sometimes I find myself longing for things my 40 year old self did or was part of. And in those moments, I feel 40 inside. But then, when I get really honest, my 58 year old self realizes that I probably don’t actually want to do the 40 year old self stuff…I’m just in a mid life musing and sometimes I feel a little lost not “doing” like I always did.

This decade is a funny one. We’re not our younger, vibrant, ready to tackle the world self and yet we are also not the old, ready to sit in a recliner and reminisce about the past self.

It’s a weird and wonderful time and I’ve not gone this way before.

The weird: empty nesting, losing or caring for parents, not climbing some ladder or spending the majority of your day building up a career, doing less, caring less about what anyone thinks, days that unfold instead of being dictated or directed by others.

The wonderful: empty nesting, more time with parents once again, not climbing some ladder or spending the majority of your day building up a career, doing less, caring less about what anyone thinks, days that can unfold instead of being dictated or directed by others.

That’s funny.

Weird and wonderful. Both and. A definitive shift for sure. A choice to grab back at what was familiar or move forward into the new.

I’m choosing wonderful and new. How about you!?

xox.eb