Have You Outgrown Your Life?
by Lesley Cordero

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It’s a signifcant birthday and I am sitting in the living room of my dear friend who has lovingly gathered several people together to celebrate. I am looking out the window somewhere else altogether.

I am not interested in the conversation, and I am yearning for someone to say something that has some meaning for me.

A friend later said that she had never seen anyone so disengaged. I felt totally alienated and adrift from my own life and the people in it.

What is wrong with me? I am usually the life of the party, is this just turning 50 angst?

Looking back at this memory, I realize that I simply had outgrown my life. Let’s look at the evidence:

1. My friends were boring me and I had started distancing myself from them by not accepting social invitations.
2. I had been cycling through a continuous string of new interests much to my family’s amusement.
3. I didn’t look at all in the mirror how I looked in my mind.
4. I had been downsized once more from a leadership position and was feeling underutilized at work.
5. I still had a few years until retirement and was looking to do something else.

On another occasion, I am sitting in a dark movie theatre watching the remake of the Thomas Crown Affair. The lead characters take off in a glider and soar over the valley below. A voice pops into my head at that moment and says, “I want a bigger life”.

All right I’ve outgrown the life I have been living which includes being a wife, mother, full time teacher, daughter, sister and friend. I’m ready for a transformation ... but into what?

So the process of transformation begins

Perhaps, like me, you are just unsatisfied with a number of things in your life, or perhaps you’ve experienced a major jarring event such as a death, divorce or firing.

Change is in the wind and there is nothing you can do about it.Sure you can try and fight it, or ignore it, causing you to stay in this holding pattern of angst longer then necessary, but you can’t stop it.

Change will occur and rather then just let it happen to you, wouldn’t you like to be at the helm?

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