{"id":695,"date":"2014-11-15T04:31:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isibindi.co.za\/\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2023-01-20T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:17:09","slug":"midlife-and-the-great-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoridge.co.za\/midlife-and-the-great-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlife and the great unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"
Clinical psychologist and blogger Berenice Meintjes takes an honest look at midlife crisis, and offers a daring recipe for making the most of this creative time of life \u2026<\/p>\n
A midlife crisis is a badly wrapped gift which brings great opportunity for immense freedom and untapped wells of joy. It starts painfully – slowly the scales fall off your eyes and the well-trodden path makes you weary with despair. You may become depressed and anxious, but fear not \u2013 this is temporary and is happening simply because you are not heeding the call of your deeper self. You grow in intolerance and courage and become ready to eschew the heavy expectations and break free from the dull drudgery and oppressive stress which somehow became your life. There is youth and life and adventure within you, calling to be set free, making you restless and disgruntled. You see those adverts where a business person breaks free from their tie and shoes and walks away barefoot on green grass and something within you leaps unexpectedly, then hisses a firm and gentle \u201cyesss.\u201d This is the call of your true self, which will not be silenced. It will only be satisfied when you shed the layers of false self which you have accumulated over the years. And perhaps surprisingly, it is a gentle and kindly soul – not nearly as reckless and vicious as it sounds when caged. It simply seeks wide open spaces, wind in your hair, and the opportunity to be completely yourself in the wilds of nature.<\/p>\n