50somethingmag ((link)) Review

Not the you of thirty, frantic with proving something. Not the you of forty, juggling mortgages, carpool, and the slow realization that your back hurts for no reason. This is the you who has finally stopped performing for an audience that wasn’t paying attention anyway.

You finally give yourself permission to do the weird thing. Take up watercolors even though you have no talent. Travel alone. Quit the committee you never liked. Start the small garden. Write the novel that will never be published. Your fifties are not about legacy—that’s a trap. They are about aliveness . Right now. Not for the resume. For you. 50somethingmag

That math is not morbid. It is clarifying. Not the you of thirty, frantic with proving something

Because here is the secret of the 50Something: You are living in the now. You have shed the skin of who you were supposed to be and are finally wearing who you actually are. You finally give yourself permission to do the weird thing