Ever been asked the question, “What would you do if you knew today was the last day of your life?”…was just listening to Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying”…so I started to think about it and…
…my answer is eat fudge. Lots and lots of fudge. Not really. But have you ever given that question serious thought?
If I were granted wishes for my last day on earth I could say:
- go skydiving or sing lead in a rock band
- write a best seller or build a chain of orphanages in Africa so no child would go without care
- discover the cure for cancer
- get that job I so desperately had wanted and deserved or spend as much money I want on anything I want
- make all those kids in school that were so mean to me for all those years feel what I felt
- go back and undo all the bad choices I made
- love better, love deeper
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Jan
Mid Life Madness
The definition of wisdom: “Accumulated knowledge of life or in a particular sphere of activity that has been gained through experience”.
Well let’s see, here are just a few mid-life tidbits of wisdom I have accumulated through my life’s experiences thus far:
Jan
Menopause, Mid Life Madness
My memory!! What happened to my memory? Mr. Sandman stole it in the night? I lost it watching the WWI wrestling or America’s Next Top Model?? What happened?
It’s not just losing my keys, forgetting why I entered a room or not being able to complete a sentence with a shred of coherency, but I am staring this very moment, at my “to do” list from yesterday and one of the items I hastily scrawled marked “urgent” is: “MAKE PRICE RED SOCK”. What am I supposed to do with that?? I have formed the letters in every possible combination and got nothing! It may come back to me and then again may not.
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Jan
Mid Life Madness
With all the ways and means to connect, interact and socialize with people online, why is it sometimes, the more I tweet, Facebook, blog, e-mail, myspace, I feel a sense of growing aloneness?
I once heard that the social networking available to us today is causing a sort of dehumanization. I sometimes wonder. I can tweet with the best of them and while it is entertaining to find out what Matthew Perry is cooking for dinner, I often wonder what happened to the art of letter writing or phone calling. Online social networking is admittedly quicker, easier and more effective but I’m not sure it nourishes the human soul as much as tickles the curious mind.
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Jan
Menopause, Mid Life Madness
