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thomas coy's avatar

Wow ~ im totally resonating with you as all my thoughts & feelings are so captured here as to my learning ~ THANK YOU INDEED

MIND YOU I wonder am I midlife at coming 80yrs @ 2026

The truth is for me there’s a time for midlife ~& it’s always now ❣️

whether younger or older ❓

As Who knows quite where your midlife emerges or of our transitions❓

Having said that ! ~ I loved reading all you say as it’s so precisely my journeying t👀⁉️

I didn’t realise I had a mission in life until 2 yrs ago ✨❓✨nights dream woken me to the love of my granddaughters and hopes for their futures and then as well as all species and living things

My heart over the past 2 years has exploded and expanded for children I meet daily & & others everywhere until I also saw my love for all living past and forward in the future ~ indeed to everything holding my heart as perspective rather any negativity ~ such is the joy of wising up to loves abundances

We arrive here in life so vulnerable we need with this GIFT of life care and protection from the world of of challenges this care from those which gave us life as well as the care of it we each grow inside us

And through this care and circumstance we gradually evolve this self. Yours or mine “a self “ becomes like a star or a SINGLEARITY radiating light so obvious in a young child but reflecting out love too

This absorbing of love too comes from surprising sources as darkness inverted into ourselves as Painful negativity waiting for the light of our souls to shine a focus on it so that wisdom might outwardly become our learning that to finally find our path to

to en~light en~meant’s wisdom shines that ahah tlight once trapped in pain

Oh how I love the wisdom of our predecessor’s finding solutions to their problems of feelings and thoughts and for which I feel such gratitude

For we each might enjoy from their growing pains towards their Midlife’s solutions of the wise and gifted

The perspective from our divine Mother Earth is simply bountiful and rich when I reflect on her magnificence of life as well as providing the heavens above

WHAT IS THERE NOT TO SBSOLUTELY LOVE LIFES MAGICAL ENTREATIES TO WHATEVER OUR CIRCUMSTANCES THE BRILLIANCE OF LIFE ~ indeed without life is there NOTHING ⁉️

Kiran Singh, Midlife by Design's avatar

What a beautiful, soul-deep reflection, Thomas. I felt every word. And yes… You are midlife, even at almost 80. Because midlife, the way I see it, isn’t a number. It’s a consciousness. A season of awakening. A moment when the inner world becomes louder than the outer noise. Some people arrive there at 40, others at 60, others at 80, but the arrival is what matters, not the age.

What you shared about your dream, your granddaughters, and that sudden knowing of your purpose… that touched me. It’s extraordinary how love can reveal our mission when logic never could. That’s the kind of wisdom younger women like me look to: lived, felt, embodied wisdom.

Your metaphor of becoming a star really stayed with me. That’s exactly what this season feels like, turning pain into light, turning life into meaning, letting love radiate outward again.

Thank you for sharing your heart here. Your presence, your story, your perspective… It’s a gift. And it reminds me that we’re always becoming, right until our last breath.