Okay, so
it has been established that menosoup is not the most fun time in life for any
woman. (MEN - don't think you are
immune, but I'll get to that another time.
If I remember.)
It is not
all doom and gloom however. Certain
things take place at a deeper, subtler level which must surely be seen as
positive.
...oh
yeah? Like what YAM?
Finding
oneself. Think about it. How many women of a 'certain age' do you know
who take to various methodologies of inner searching? Of course there are those who just don't want
to open the box. Those who try to turn
back the years instead of embracing the grace of maturity. I was guilty of this a bit myself to begin
with, so I know what I'm talking about.
If one
has always been based in a centre of honesty, though, this doesn't last for
long. For many women, it is also the
time of the 'empty nest' and a chance to rediscover talents once cherished in
youth, or to nurture those which have been waiting to flourish.
There's a
sort of crone-age rebellion that happens for many, letting out the inner
hippy. Trouble is many don't remember
even what that actually means. Throw
some colour about, take up yoga stretching (...tai-chi, chai-tea or
wherzmaknee), hang a crystal or three,
pink-stripe the boy-cut hair. That'll
do. Oh let's not forget to have at least
two vegetarian meals a week. Fifty is
fun. Well yes it is my dears and all
power to you!
Something
I have come to recognise, though, is that in our Western (read UK/Aus/US and
maybe Euro too) society, the tradition of aging appropriately has become so
distorted, indeed forgotten, that majority of the searching proves
unsatisfactory. There's always something
missing.
This is
where we hit a subject that can divide audiences. How deeply does anyone really want to
search? I will leave you considering
that each for your own selves.
From here
I can only share my own view. The
deepest search is the only valid search. Absolute transparency of being is the
goal. The transparency that ensures I am
at one with creation. Release of the
spirit from it's confinement in the physical.
Knowing that in transactional world everything one does or says comes
from a place of truth. Even this right
here in front of you.
YAM! Kya?
Where's the fun?
Ah well,
seeking to sit in truth lends itself to some interesting contortions as one has
to 'clean out the cupboard'. You're
getting some of the stuff that's been sitting on the shelves of my being. Sometimes that will be hilarious. Other times rather serious. Always, I hope and pray, leaving you with
something to chew upon during your day. Or at least for a minute or two.
If I
occasionally cause you to ponder the deeper (or more ridiculous) elements of
life, then I have been successfully menocausal.
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