Forget "lovin' it" - am flat-out exhilarated at the prospect of diving into old age! Yeah, there are down sides, but they're all physical. Spiritually, emotionally, when it comes to my psyche, all systems are GO! in ways I never imagined in my younger years. Perspective - it's wonderful!
Perhaps the greatest lesson is that everything IS - everything that happens is a lesson on living wiser, sharper, savvier.
Over the past six weeks, a treasured older friend ceased to be a client. That could be viewed as disaster, if I looked at it as a financial situation. But it wasn't. The work requirements involve doing icky stuff that are frankly an insult to what I bring to the table.
Do you have ANY idea what a huge leap in self esteem it is for me to think that? Wow! I invest astonishing amounts of money time energy on am interlocking patchwork of conferences & workshops, books & dvds ~and~ they want me scooping dog poop - I don't think so!
Interesting thing - there's a young family I have the pleasure of helping out twice a week. Twice, I've lopped off my rate because a) it's just so much joy being with the children and b) they aren't using the skills & deep background I've developed & nurture around "sage-ing not age-ing" issues. I've discovered, slashing what I charge them & dropping someone as a client but not as a friend, that money just doesn't mean that much to me, that what truly matters in life is knowing your true north purposes & following wherever they may lead.
That may sound like wildly impractical, criminally irrational, bunch of hippie dippy nonsense, but I look around at my radically happy, fulfilled life that's on course for greater happiness & fulfillment & give three loud cheers for being old enough to finally know better, young enough to still be able to make a difference.
Am at the deep end of middle age & totally completely absolutely LOVIN' IT!!
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