The Transformation that Takes Place Once Your Life is Half Over

Every now and again, my wife likes to remind me about how she is so much younger than me — two weeks younger, in fact. It started when I hit 30, and she was still 29. She would have a little boast about how she was still in her twenties, but I was seemingly over the hill in my thirties. So you can imagine her delight when I turned 37 years old. What is the significance of turning 37? Well, in my country, Australia, 37 is the median age of the population. All of a sudden, I found myself in the old half while my wife was still in the young half — for two more weeks anyway. I am now older than 50% of the people in my country. Or, to look at it another way, more than half of the people in my country have been born while I have been alive. How did this happen? Crossing over to the “old side” got me reflecting on my life. The conclusions that I arrived at were both frightening and liberating. Life, it seems, happens in two halves. You can choose to fight it, if you want… but life always wins, in the end. <h1>The first half of life is about construction</h1> The first half of life is all about building. We spend the first half of our lives building for ourselves an identity that we believe will be palatable to the world and personally satisfying. We construct our sense of self. We build our families, we build our fortune, we build our careers. We attempt to do all the things that we believe will make us fulfilled and happy, following the well-worn path of Western individualism and the ‘self-made-man.’ <a href="https://medium.com/backyard-theology/the-transformation-that-takes-place-once-your-life-is-half-over-d1f0f8592608">Click Here</a>