This is it. This is the whole thing.
We spend the first half of our lives collecting. Careers, partners, homes, resentments, accolades, and traumas. We pack them into a suitcase we call "identity." And then, somewhere around the middle (if we are lucky enough to get a middle), the suitcase breaks. Mature NL - 5130
The Unfinished Business of Being Human (Musing #5130) This is it
If you are reading this and you feel like you are "behind" — behind on your savings, behind on your emotional growth, behind on your fitness goals — let me offer you a strange comfort. behind on your emotional growth
It is not the silence of loneliness. It is the silence of reckoning .