Midlife Journey

“You can’t take everything with you when you leave on the midlife journey. You are moving away, away from institutional claims and other people’s agenda, away from external valuations and accreditations. You are moving out of roles and into the self. If I could give everyone a gift for send-off on this journey, it would be a tent, the gift for portable roots…!(Charles Taylor,From the book "The Malaise of Modernity")