Halfway There

I’ve noticed over the last ten years that there is a certain ebb-and-flow to my kids personalities throughout the year and the high point is around their birthday. On the other end of the spectrum, six months out, that’s when they are the most challenged by their nascent abilities, troubled by a lack of confidence and likely to react to difficult situations with raw emotion instead of logical problem solving.

While this makes it possible to anticipate rough spots it doesn’t necessarily translate into easy answers or solutions for them, or us, as parents.

What occurs to me now is that as an adult I’m following much the same cycle but measured in a lifetime, not a single year. At the half-way point of my life I’ve had more doubts and fears and found myself in more difficult situations than I would have thought possible.

I could look at everything around me and declare that my life is half-over, the cup half-empty and holy crap, how could it get any worse?

Being an optimist though, I’m choosing to believe that it will only get better since I’m halfway there.

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