Throughout our lives, we experience various intervals. Indeed, these are necessary moments of pause to recover our strength in order to start anew. We must do this to resume our daily work, family, and social routines; in short, to begin being present again. However, with the passing of the years, that interval no longer represents a simple temporary pause. Instead, it fully becomes your life.
A time comes when you can no longer work, your children have formed new families, and society might deem you useless. Consequently, it is precisely within this empty space that you must find the energy for a new life.
Finding new purpose and connection
Therefore, it becomes vital to dedicate yourself to your passions, which are always best ignited during youth. Moreover, you need to become that essential point of reference for your grandchildren that you once were for your own children. This is the perfect way to show society that you can still be deeply useful.
Certainly, starting over is much easier if the place where you live remains on a human scale. It helps significantly if your partner is still by your side, if your children’s family is still your family, and if your friends truly miss your presence.
Ultimately, this great interval of later life will have other small intervals of its own. In fact, you will always feel the necessity to take a pause to recharge and begin, day after day, being present for yourself and for others.