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Jeremy Arviso's avatar

Wow, that was an incredible piece and just what I needed to read! Definitely sharing ;)

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Jaime Derringer's avatar

"So much of my purpose and value stems from productivity." This is something I have struggled with my entire life as well and while it's been really nice to sit back and enjoy the view, doing so was unexpectedly hard. My brain struggles with WANTING to be online, DOING something. It gave me so much anxiety. It was a practice at resting that I had to force myself to do until I actually enjoyed it.

Slowing down was the best thing I did. We are roughly the same age, and this is about the time when these things happen to us...midlife. I do think that external factors you mentioned have also pushed many of us into this life-questioning stage, perhaps earlier than expected and seems to be the sentiment among my friends too, regardless of age. But this time of life is the time when we reach the top of the mountain and need to decide where / what to climb next, knowing that the next climb will be different—we will know the importance of stopping to smell the flowers or dipping our toes in chill streams or identifying a mushroom along the way.

If not now, then when? It has to be now for us.

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