You might feel as though you have stopped changing now that you’ve reached midlife. You’ve built yourself through hard work and happenstance. Now, you think, your preferences have stabilized; your important skills at their zenith; your relationships formed and tended.
Not so fast. You are still becoming. You are still changing. You can’t even imagine what life has in store for you.
Think back over the last ten years. Did you change? Did your life change? Did unexpected terrible and wonderful things happen? Did the you of ten years ago imagine that so much could unfold?
That’s what can happen in the next ten years also, except it will be different, and it’s unknowable.
Open yourself up to the becoming of yourself into the future. You are not done changing.
Midlife doesn’t have to be a time for musty routines and stagnant connections.
Today, I look forward to my becoming with openness, presence, and courage. I let go of my past as I live into my unknown future.