I say this all the time...”Turns out my parents were right about time moving faster when you’re older.” Like Sarah, I’ve found my early foray into my 40s to be full and satisfying; like you speak of, I think a big part of that is a stripping back to what matters when there is a sense of “there won’t always be more time”. It’s such a balance of living in the brilliant enoughness of now and respecting that this life is finite.
And ps I’m excited to dive into the friendship podcast. Post-2020, I’ve noticed the shift in who is still in my life, who fell away, who do I want in my life (current, former, new).
I love being in my 40s. I've embraced the freedom that comes with age and not being as worried about what others think. But oh I feel this urgency. What legacy am I leaving? What impact am I having? Who will remember me when I'm gone?
I really started to feel this after Rachel Held Evans died, and I realized that time is so much shorter than we want to believe. And I saw this wealth of work that she had left behind for her young children to remember her by and realized that I needed to keep writing it all down for my kids.
Time is so short isn’t it? But I think that after the grief of realizing we won’t live forever, embracing the constraint of time can end up being so exciting. ❤️❤️ xo
I hope you had a lovely Birthday
I say this all the time...”Turns out my parents were right about time moving faster when you’re older.” Like Sarah, I’ve found my early foray into my 40s to be full and satisfying; like you speak of, I think a big part of that is a stripping back to what matters when there is a sense of “there won’t always be more time”. It’s such a balance of living in the brilliant enoughness of now and respecting that this life is finite.
And ps I’m excited to dive into the friendship podcast. Post-2020, I’ve noticed the shift in who is still in my life, who fell away, who do I want in my life (current, former, new).
I love being in my 40s. I've embraced the freedom that comes with age and not being as worried about what others think. But oh I feel this urgency. What legacy am I leaving? What impact am I having? Who will remember me when I'm gone?
I really started to feel this after Rachel Held Evans died, and I realized that time is so much shorter than we want to believe. And I saw this wealth of work that she had left behind for her young children to remember her by and realized that I needed to keep writing it all down for my kids.
Good and thought provoking piece for today :-)
Time is so short isn’t it? But I think that after the grief of realizing we won’t live forever, embracing the constraint of time can end up being so exciting. ❤️❤️ xo