Lions, Tigers and Bears OH MY!!! by Andrea Martin Mid-life is certainly not for the timid. No way! We have so many things we are confronted with it can be an extraordinarily overwhelming time in a person’s life. We have the most perplexing series of changes to deal with, and if your life is like mine, well, they come in abundance. There are the physical changes that come with great irony. Women start to thicken around the waist and spread in places that were previously nice and compact. By a twist of gender-bending fate women sprout a mustache and tiny chin hairs! Men on the other hand tend to lose their illustrious locks and (dare I go there) watch their previously perky pectorals sag into the culturally dreaded man-boobs. Yes mid- life is a bear! I try to make light of this deliberately because mid-life comes with great angst to so many when not viewed in the correct light. Midlife is the greatest chance for the D’s to take hold Death (of parents and elders) Divorce Disability Depression Disillusionment Derailment This time forces us to order our lives around rearing children and helping our elderly. Then, after a decade or more of losing ourselves in service— We then lose those whom we served. Our parents often become sick and require professional care and pass on. The kids go off to school….. or worse yet … they get a life of their own… and not at all the one you “chose” for them. It’s tremendous change to cope with and sadly we are NOT taught to embrace it. Most are already challenged by the changes on the outside and then IT HITS! Like an internal beast, a tiger, gnawing and tearing asunder of all of what you previously regarded so highly with...
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