Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.
Interpretation
As life changes, especially in later years, one must redefine their identity and purpose.
This quote by Jessica Lange reflects on the transitions that occur in life, particularly when children grow up and careers wind down. It emphasizes the importance of using this newfound time and space to explore a new sense of self and to contemplate the meaning of life, suggesting that the end of one chapter can lead to the opportunity for renewal and discovery.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth during retirement.
Be present. I would encourage you with all my heart just to be present. Be present and open to the moment that is unfolding before you. Because, ultimately, your life is made up of moments. So don't miss them by being lost in the past or anticipating the future.
For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.
If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.
I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
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