Without love in your heart – you’ve got nothing! This is the conclusion I came to in the midst of my own midlife crisis.
I had recently left a bad marriage and the only career I had ever known had vaporized before my eyes, but I realized that finding one genuine love before I died was my highest priority.
Why? Because in the long run, love is what sustains us.
Most of us hate to admit this. I was in denial for most of my adult life. Facing the truth hurt too much. Because if love was so important to my own happiness, and I never found it, the consequences were too grim to face.
I enjoyed watching the film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World this week. There’s nothing like the end of the world to get your priorities in order!
What if you knew the world would end in three weeks? What would quickly rise to the top of your ‘to do” list? This film asks this question, and then answers it beautifully.
As I watched this funny, completely unpredictable, and yet somehow serious film, I imagined what I would do, realizing that this was really an expose on the entire world going through a midlife crisis under a very strict deadline.
A proper midlife crisis feels like the world is ending, but generally we have more than three weeks to come to terms with the choices we’ve made, and resolve our unfinished business. This film made me glad that I had some time after my own crisis to change my life and then reap the rewards of those changes.
See this funny, thoughtful, thought-provoking film if you ever wonder what the end will feel like.
