Lessons in midlife
Midlife is an interesting phase. It can be the best of times or the worst of times. More often than not, it’s both at the same time—angst-ridden but also laced with discovery and joy over strengths we never thought we possessed.
Midlife is an interesting phase. It can be the best of times or the worst of times. More often than not, it’s both at the same time—angst-ridden but also laced with discovery and joy over strengths we never thought we possessed.
It’s easy to like sports—so long as I don’t have to participate, which I dreaded in school when I had no choice. In midlife, cousin Ninit and I decided to take up tennis under a well-known pro, who also happened to be a friend. After we completed the course, he took me aside and asked to please not tell anyone I had taken his course and not to wear the T-shirt he gave me and all the other students proclaiming he taught us tennis. Ninit, who was not bad, went on to play for a bit, but with a partner like me, who preferred dodging balls, she gave up eventually.
I live my life in reverse. Where others my age are already planning for their retirement, I’m just beginning again. The last two decades of my life were focused on raising a family, and although I wrote professionally through those years, give or take a few years, I never really worked full-time.
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