Live on—live on as if you had centuries!
~ Carl Jung
Fears compete with disasters for headlines around the world. In these jaw-dropping times of overwhelming challenges and turbulent change, it is easy to fall into resignation and hopelessness or turn away into abject denial, seeking to turn back the hands of time to what we suppose was a gentler era.
But even in the worst of times, it is important to remember that it is possible to bring light and hope in a world of darkness, oppression, and despair.
These are awesome times, testing all we have to offer. But how are the tests of these times different from those of the past?
We’ve had epidemics, pandemics, and natural disasters in the past, so what’s the big deal? The difference is that now the earth is in jeopardy as is our way of life. What we’ve done is to up the ante to the max.
There are days I just want to give up, when my doubts loom larger than life. I get hooked on what isn’t yet here, instead of focusing on what’s here now. (You know the feeling?) It’s like gunning the motor while stepping on the brake with the other foot! But I’m reminded that this is our time to make a sustainable difference. We’re needed, that is all we can be sure of.
So full speed ahead into the future.
My newest refrain is: “I’m still standing after all this time!” Like the Energizer Bunny, I keep rebounding because I truly believe we are being prepared to withstand and survive even greater stress and testing on all fronts. We are either en route to an evolutionary dead-end where everything we’ve known and held true is up for grabs, or we’ll ride these future trends into a new world of our making.
The greatest gift of these times of epoch change has been the call to our greatness. Sometimes the call is so silent, it is barely perceptible except to the trained ear. Other times, it shakes us up like a cacophonous horn blowing for all the world’s souls to come to attention.
Remember that it is we who are entering, in the midst of, or leaving our rich middle years who have the responsibility to be the new trailblazing leaders on the vanguard of tomorrow. We must be the new messengers, teachers, leaders, and transformers co-creating a better tomorrow…today. As history tells us, change agents always deepen their culture and leave a legacy for future generations by confronting the difficulties of their times with invention, insight and transcendent understanding.
Our current worldwide pandemic and engulfing economic depression leave most of us in the middle of the muddle as we are confronted with our newest shared mega transition…only to be inflamed by continuous disasters spawned by rapid climate change.
Boomers center stage! You are on call!
Now in midlife or our elder years, most of us have acquired the wisdom as well as thirst for authentic expression that makes for new and enlightened entrepreneurship and trailblazing leadership. We Boomers were brought to our knees several times, only to get back up again in preparation for the BIG SHIFT. Each of us must be the torch-bearers lighting the way forward for and with our younger generations to create a new tomorrow.
It is our time to hold a new vision and not let it go!
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