Midlife Doesn’t Have to Be a Crisis

Feeling lost and free, I started thinking about my in-between time not as a dead end to escape, but as a space worth exploring. And with that mindset, I quickly became reacquainted with an old friend and ally: curiosity.

Cultivating a strong and enduring sense of self means treating your life like a path. It requires that you do not become too attached to any period of “order” or to any specific route, which usually causes more harm than good and leads to all manner of missed opportunities.

Feeling lost and free, I started thinking about my in-between time not as a dead end to escape, but as a space worth exploring. And with that mindset, I quickly became reacquainted with an old friend and ally: curiosity.