Control what you can in your own life.

If you’re over 50, you’re probably feeling a little off right now and are not sure why.

The world’s a noisy place right now, isn’t it? The volume’s been cranked up to eleven, and it’s a song that you don’t like. It’s just a constant barrage of chaos, rack and ruin. You turn on the news – economic doom, environmental disasters, political morons asking us to believe them, and pointless things like ice bucket challenges. Then you try to understand what your grandkids are talking about – TikTok, Crypto, the Metaverse… It’s enough to make your head spin. And let’s be honest, your body probably spins a little slower than it used to anyway.

I know first-hand that it’s easy to feel like you’re losing your grip. The world you understood, the world you felt like you had a handle on, is slipping away. The young guys are in charge now, the tech is racing ahead, and you’re… well, you’re here. Middle-aged, sitting on your backside on the couch with the remote to your life that has no batteries in it.

You look in the mirror each morning only to see a few more lines, or you are horrified to think the seventies were thirty years ago.  Every morning, getting up means starting the old engine with a few extra splutters and a lot of white smoke. You wonder, “What the hell is next? And does it even matter anymore?”.

 “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” – Victor Hugo

Purpose, direction, and a future to excite yourself all seem a distant second to where you are currently doing and feeling. It’s a tough place to be and one that many people over 50 often find themselves in. And if you are feeling it, you’re not alone. People keep telling you it’s some midlife-crisis cliché or another. You are actually at a crossroads again, just like you were on your twentieth birthday. It’s time for a shift in perspective, a genuine confrontation with the way things are and the way they’re going to be.

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