My turn again and I was not excited about the prompt, but that is what this challenge is all about: going outside the comfort zone.
A book with career advice: It’s Only Too Late if You Don’t Start Now by Barbara Sher
Apparently life is supposed to come to a screeching halt at 40. Surprised? So was I. I hope she is wrong. I am 35 now and feel like the world is still endless and full of potential. According to the author, I won’t feel that way in 5 years.
The author breaks the book into two sections: how you got to the point of this mid life crisis and what to do now.
I will fully admit that while I started the book reading it thoroughly by mid point it turned into skimming. It was boring, it didn’t align at all with my own experiences and I found it hard to relate to.
Basically the author feels that it is perfectly acceptable to feel that way when you turn 40 and not only is it acceptable, but it is necessary. After 40 you become a brand new person with new goals, new beliefs and new perspective. That person is much more like the person you were when you were a kid and you can once again return to your true self.
Maybe my opinion will be different once I am 40, but my mother, who is 57, felt the same as me and didn’t connect with the book either.
2/5
The Roaming Rider 