What It Means To Be Middle Aged
Posted On December 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm in Anti Aging
The first time we realize that we need to buy hair loss prevention treatments we start to realize that we are in fact, approaching that day when we will no longer be able to fake being young. We fight off the middle aged friends and associations we have because we don’t want our kids to think that just maybe, we’re getting old.
As we tighten our belly belt in hopes of keeping middle age bulge far from our daily influences and we wake in the morning to stiffness and upper back pain, we are reminded that we are slowly entering the land of middle age.
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.
Middle age signals that we are halfway there, halfway through our life expectancy. As though from here on out climbing downhill should be easier than it was to climb uphill we tend to act as though we have nothing really special to share or nothing really innovative left to do.
In such cases, we would be wrong. We are not bound to our greatness or our lack thereof due to our age. We are limited by our own perceptions of what we should be. Some of this we are still carrying from our parents. We are still trying to prove them wrong about us and prove to ourselves that we were right about us. We said we’d be something special. We are. The real crime is that most of the time we can’t see it for ourselves and we have determined that some highly unattainable goal is what will make us, in our minds, ‘special.’
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