Over the past few months, with all of the celebrity deaths I found myself reflecting on life and death. When I saw this post on www.encore.org I decided I wanted to share it with all of. Marc Freedman, author of the books Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life and Prime Time: How Baby Boomers will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America, and founder of Civic Ventures, was interviewed by Sarah Kershaw of The New York Times. She had called to ask him what impact all of the celebrity deaths of the past few months had on the psyche of baby boomers. The deaths "from Michael Jackson (50) and Farah Fawcett (62), through Patrick Swayze (56) and Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul, and Mary, 72), to icons of our boomer childhoods like Walter Cronkite (92) and Edward M. Kennedy (77), the last of the Kennedy brothers – where have all the flowers gone?"
His statement was, "To me, at 51, these premature deaths and long lives represent both the compression and expansion of time, the realization that life is finite along with the likelihood that we will live much, much longer. Most of us who are crossing into our 50s today can expect to live well past 80. Time matters more, in a way that we didn’t realize in our 20s, and we have enough time to do something significant, something that matters. We get a second bite at the apple, with a new perspective.
I also feel that the sense of time is a helpful impetus to be conscious and intentional about how we want to live during our second half of life. I'd love to hear some of your thoughts and feelings about it.
Dori Mintzer
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