midlife is the time to begin to put together…

Page 133 keyword growth midlife is the time to begin to put together a new self-image. Questions of meaning and purpose assail us: what is in me now and where is my path? Will I have the determination and energy to make my path a reality? Who can mentor me get? Why am I so afraid? When we were young everything seems possible. We have energy come enthusiasm, dreams, and plans for the future. It is time to push life's limits and go for it. Sooner or later out of life's vast potential, we must come to the point of choosing particular persons or jobs or places to live. It forces us to recognize that we are now making choices that eliminate other choices. We must make choices and experience loss of options if we are to mature well and adulthood people who avoid choosing them float along them possibilities - - trying to avoid the pain of making mistakes - - are committing a bigger and judgment. And they're fear of the future and of the deaths of adult life they are refusing to live fully. Victor you go in Les Miserables describe the what happens to those who fear the future. It is not the future they can done with their fears, but themselves. The only way out of the future, is to die.

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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