Let’s face it. No one wants to admit that they are facing middle age. It’s like letting go of your youth and admitting that old age is right around the corner. We don’t want to admit that we need hair loss prevention remedies or that we might not have accomplished everything we wanted to yet.
With belly belts to tighten the expanding waistline we look around, hoping our hat looks cool and that we’re not obviously trying to cover up thinning hair. We creak out of our nightly slumber with upper back pain and a headache from insisting we are not too old to still be sleeping on a futon.
All of our lives we have dreaded finding out one day that we have crossed some imaginary line that calls us middle aged. We instead try to hang onto our glory days, or even worse, we try to fit in with the teenagers of today. They are onto us. They know we’re old and that we can not be cool because of that. No matter what we say or do, they already know the truth.
We can care for our families with great passion and we can love others with wicked devotion but somewhere in there we seemed to have given up on our everyday greatness that changes lives and makes the world move forward. We are, after all, human more than we are an age.
Growing older doesn’t have to mean anything if we don’t want it to. Rather, we have the ability to decide that we are at our prime, wherever we are. Age is just a number. Granted, sometimes it’s a significant number. But it is a number all the same.
Life is not a competition and we don’t need to fight like we’re in the last round. Because we’re not. As we age we still give much to the world and to those around us, whether we ever produced that album we swore we would in our high school yearbook.
Middle age is not a signature that it is all over. It’s not a time to just break down or become someone else for awhile. We’ve earned every battle scar and every graying hair on our heads. We’ve earned our heartaches and by the time it is all said and done, we have earned all that we are. So as far as middle age goes, it must be an advertising trick. It’s something to place us in a demographic and to sell us products we may or may not need. It’s another way to refer to people that makes them fit into nice little boxes.
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