Okay, time for a dramatic moment. I consider this a victory for all of us Second Halfers! I’m officially a published writer today. The wonderful digital magazine The Fine Line published one of my previous blogposts today. You can find the link here:
https://thefinelinemag.com/
This is big for me. It is a dream that I think I always had, to be a published writer, but I let it go latent. This moment is a huge reminder to myself to not listen to that ugly, negative, snarling, fearful voice in my head telling me that I’m not good enough, nobody cares about my ideas, and to just sit back and shut up and keep doing the dishes. We all have that ugly voice raging at us and we need to silence him or her. Now. When our “ugly voice” is silenced we can hear the still, quiet, calm, peaceful, knowing voice that is inside all of us. That is the voice which is beckoning us to share our true selves with the world. When we do that, we are helping creation become what it is truly meant to be. And that is a gift to ourselves and to the world.
“One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live – with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad – but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else’s.” – Michael Ignatieff
Second Halfers, our time has come. We are ripened, wisened and brave. We know who we are now and it is time that we love and accept who we are and share our total creation of ourselves, fully and honestly, with life. We have championed our families, our careers, our mentors and our mentees, but it’s time to realize that it is good and right to champion ourselves as well. I am so grateful to you all for your support and feedback on this blog. Thank you for inspiring me to open up some latent dreams, and rallying me along the way.
” . . .sometimes, the fiercest thing you can do is to be unapologetic about who you are and what you want.” – Anonymous