At midlife, we can feel in our bones that we are going to die.
One of the most central dynamics of midlife is centred on meaning and purpose. Midlife forces us to ask some radical questions about ourselves, the meaningfulness and direction of the life we lead. These questions are invitations to us to make better sense of our past and present, and create new meaning and purpose for the future, so that we can live the second half of our lives more consciously, that is, the way our “soul”—meaning our deep authentic self—wants us to live.
There are four kinds of questions we usually ask ourselves as midlife creeps upon us:
- Who am I?
- Whose am I?
- What have I accomplished?
- What do I feel about the way I have lived and now live?
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Fr Jose Parappully SDB
