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22-26 I got fired, broke up with my girlfriend, moved across the country, started another job, met my wife, got married, had a kid… that's a lot of change.
My 50's. It was a decade of death and ultimately my rebirth. Literally the best and worst of times.
I lost my parents, after more than a decade of caregiving. And my H. Then I discovered I had somehow become a slim attractive woman after a lifetime of being quite ugly. I learned how to have fun again too. I had to, it was there!
22-26 I got fired, broke up with my girlfriend, moved across the country, started another job, met my wife, got married, had a kid… that's a lot of change.
Larry - if we were voting, I think you'd take the prize. Congrats for thriving through what would likely have given me a heart attack - even at that age!
yellowsnow, I can relate. Lost my Dad and Aunt unexpectedly over the last two years. It shook me up although not nearly as earth shattering as the divorce of my folks when I was 7. I, too, have learned to embrace life. I just turned 51. Blessings.
For me the age of 55 was significant for the reason that many around me were retiring and although I was old enough to take an early out I didn't have the service time necessary for that offer. I was also getting tired of working at that age, body didn't want to respond as usual, and the job was becoming a ritual of meaningless make work. I wanted to do and go, be free of the restraints of the job and pursue those things I always wanted to be doing, but couldn't..
I sometimes wish we oldsters could pass on what we've learned about life and working that would provide a path of sorts for our successors. So many times in my work years I'd see the youth coming through the door for their first real job opportunity, their enthusiasm was sometimes mistaken for a type of cluelessness, but on closer scrutiny the older's would have to admit that they were simply becoming jaded. There seems to be a natural ebb and flow to life that causes us to move on when we know the young can, and should, take over. At that time looking forward instead of backward allows for the necessary momentum to succeed at something other than work.
The years 62 to 65 were also significant for the fact of my wife dying and my finding myself alone for the first time in over thirty years, living in a new town, recently retired, and just plain tired. Reinvention of one's self seems to be the key in any attempt to find your niche after working for so long. We adapt to adulthood from a teens view of things, from child to teen and from older adult to a much older one. Through it all it comes down to adaptation, for those who resist change a kind of loss occurs as their new reality, for those who embrace change a type of rebirth occurs and in that we find our future looking better all the time.
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