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Discover Aid: The Challenges Of Living In Your Midlife http://www.discoveraid.com Midlife is a time of change: lifestyle, career, relationships. Time for some self help support to guide you out of the down days. Topics also cover parenting, narcissism, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, divorce & surviving infidelity & midlife crisis. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:22:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My children I think about my children all the time as they are so much part of my life. When There comes a time to truely reflect on my life i would like to remind myself that it could have been very different. I left long hours commuting and work to ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/my-children.html Live you life like its the only one you will get I recall a couple of people i have met telling me with a smile that they believe in reincarnation. By thesmile that delivers the announcement it seems to me the thought of reincarnation is a comforting thought that solves that troubled bother of the alternative which is probably to accept ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/live-you-life-like-its-the-only-one-you-will-get.html Waiting for a bus It's often said that life passes by you as you are stearing death in the face. Well, in my present mode of thought, with a very buzzy bee around my head i am thinking the same. The warm september sun is on my back & my bus is late. I ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/waiting-for-a-bus.html Mid life motivation I am pretty much overwealmed with all that i need to do and be responsible for currently. All of my own doing. This causes me to really struggle with motivation again. I thought i had found my drive and energy but the to do list weighs me down once again. ... http://www.discoveraid.com/mid-life-crisis/mid-life-motivation.html Space We all need some space sometime. Peace. http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/space.html Restricting kids online access Ok so this isnt going to be that useful to many people but, if you have a mac, like i do, this may help a little. I decided i needed some control over my 12 year old's antics on the internet. I had banned her at least once from Bebo.com ... http://www.discoveraid.com/parenting/restricting-kids-online-access.html Single I wrote a piece last year that described an image I had of a person I knew in my local town. Don't know her name, nor is this about being attracted to that person. But what I saw was a person who was independent at mid life and looked as ... http://www.discoveraid.com/infidelity-marriage-breakup-relationship-breakup/single.html Days Like This Days like this: Midsummer sunset, warm breeze, I want to watch the last of the day's sun on the last branch on the highest tree. http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/days-like-this.html Squandering Our Lives Away Perhaps if we counted our age as the (possible) time left we have we wouldn't squander what we have when we are young. I was listening to a journalist on the radio yesterday who emphasized how very short our lives really are when you think of the potential of what ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/squandering-our-lives-away.html Leave Your Passion Late To Bite Your Butt I have a strong need to create and fulfil myself. I am not sure exactly how but I have a few good pointers. But I do feel like I have under-achieved in life very much so far and am very ambitious about making a change to make it happen before things are too ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/leave-your-passion-late-to-bite-your-butt.html When Are You Going To Start Living Your Life Like You Dream ? When we are young, our lives stretch out in front of us. We see so many days ahead of us and we assume that we will live until we are a hundred. Days are cast by, one after the other as if we are rich with time. Yet as life goes on, we ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/when-are-you-going-to-start-living-your-life-like-you-dream.html 45 Years Young I have high blood pressure. Can you believe that? I have sciatica! can you believe that? Some days I feel like a wreak! All those years of feeling immortal when I was young... Well, now I am paying for it. The high blood pressure is a curious one however. I am overweight. I ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/45-years-young.html My Greatest Fear In Life Is Failure My greatest fear in life is failure. Failure to create my kids a happy life with sound characters is a great fear. I also fear that when I look back on my life I summaries it as full of missed opportunities and misunderstandings of what really was important to me. Fear of failing to ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/my-greatest-fear-in-life-is-failure.html UK’s Child Support Agency: Completely Useless I recently asked the Child Support Agency if they would advise and help with getting me a fair child maintenance agreement with my children's mother. My understanding was that they would investigate and help to fully understand her income. I spoke of incomes I was aware of yet when it ... http://www.discoveraid.com/mid-life-crisis/uks-child-support-agency-completely-useless.html Struggling With Existentialism I give myself a hard time. Unlike most, who are happy to plod through life, the routine and the life cycle all set out in front of them. I am feeling, Like Bono once said, that I still haven't found what I am looking for. Its not a religious thing, its more about ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/struggling-with-existentialism.html What’s the point? I find I am saying this to much recently. I have lots to live for yet find I am still looking for something far more meaningful than the life I have. My life isn't that bad. Sure, it would be nice to have an income, but with a plan in progress with my ... http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/whats-the-point.html Stop Abusing Time A close friend and I were discussing the conditions of our bodies the other day. We are a little over weight. My blood pressure is a little too high (I http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/stop-abusing-time.html 45 Years Young..er..OLD Its my 45th Birthday today. I look out through my eyes and its the same view I see ever since I stopped growing. I wonder when this view will change because certainly if I look at myself in the mirror I don http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/45-years-youngerold.html Lonliness Having felt Lonely even though I live amongst 5 children with my partner I feel that it is an issue that must be understood. For me, my loneliness seems to be based around a lack of male friendships. Close trusting relationships with men. Maybe I don http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/lonliness.html Begin…. "Begin doing what you want now. We are not living in eternity. We have only the moment sparkling like a star in our hands and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late" (Marie Beyon Ray) http://www.discoveraid.com/midlife-middle-years-life-style-change/begin.html