So, what is 50?
The following are entries from my journal dated May 29, 2005: Re: midlife crisis: "One solution is to go into the darkness and explore. Stick in the mire for a while. Take a sabaticle and become a midlife delinquent." From the book passages Page 295
I was about to turn 50 on June 20, 2005, when I wrote the following:
“So…what is 50? What does it mean? Nothing? Death? A beginning? An end? I Dunno.
At 50, I will on 5/29/2006, have been lawyering half my life. 25 years.
Katie and Matt, hosts of the Today Show on TV, are both 47 or so. They herald the 50’s as the new 30’s.
I approach the New Years of life…50.
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Note: 10/17/2024
Now mid age 69, at the end of my 60s, I’d say the 60’s are the new 30’s. Just, a broader, richer version. I was much “older” when I was in my 50’s than I am now. I loosened up in my 60s, let go more and life has a more comfortable fit.
