Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
16 hours agoThere's a particular stillness that arrives in your 40s when you realize that the people who were supposed to approve of your choices never actually had a vote, and most of the exhaustion of the previous decade was the cost of campaigning in an election that didn't exist. - Silicon Canals
Realization in midlife reveals that the pursuit of approval was often imaginary, leading to self-acceptance and a shift in identity.