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The middle years. It’s not the excitement of life just beginning-venturing into the adulthood that has seemed so mysterious, exciting, and elusive for so long. It’s no longer the beginning of creating a family, a whirlwind of firsts. First house, first baby, first real job. The tight stomach and smooth skin are gone. The light of innocence and openness has diminished. The heart has been scarred and healed, stronger, but never the same as it was before.
The middle years. No longer just beginning, but not yet at the end. The years when the reality of how short life really is begins to take shape. The years when who you are solidifies and you have sifted through life and the people in it to separate what’s true and real from what is dead weight.
The years when you begin to protect your peace at all costs. When you realize there just isn’t time for the things and people that steal your joy. The years that you begin to sink into what is important and release what isn’t.
The middle years. These are the years when you begin to fully appreciate this life you have been given. You see the people in your life with so much more clarity. Drama just feels exhausting and unnecessary.
The middle years. When your children begin to slowly morph into who they will become. They are taller than you now. They have their own ideas and opinions, their own sense of humor. They need you less all the time and the letting go will simultaneously break your heart and make it soar.
The middle years, when you know who you are deeply. When you realize that your life belongs to you. You care less about what others think and you have learned the art of letting the ideas and opinions people have of you be whatever they are.
The middle years, where you find your voice. Where you learn to choose your battles. Where divorces, deaths, and sickness touch too many of the lives around you. Where it seems that there is a new tragedy waiting around every corner. Where you begin to understand the importance of taking care of your body, because you learn how quickly it can break down.
The middle years, where you have shed the weight of living for the world and you learn to live in your purpose, for you. The years that you understand what living truly is while you’re still young enough to live it.
These middle years are under rated. These years just may be the sweet spot of life
