"Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure — taking place entirely in his head — he finds it again". (by Carl Jung)
I wonder how many people loose themselves through the course of their life and yet were able able to reclaim it? Even if they find their soul again, is it ever the same? I wonder how many people loose their soul again and again, but finally realize it was never lost.
In the course of over 3 decades of my life and close approaching the 4th decade, I have pleasure to encounter people at many walks of life. Some I kept contact with for years, other I know for a brief period of time and others I get cliff notes version of things that happened to them every couple of years. I am so intrigue by how people equate the unexpected lost or short coming of their life with the lost of their soul while what they earn or the blessing they receive as how they find themselves again. They don't all say how their soul was changed, but in essences all the conversation, blogs, email, postcard, and tweets are just that. My soul did something.
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On another note, I wonder if Biden is the new Bush? He gets an ***ism tagged with his name and luckly he's only the vice president.
http://www.slate.com/id/2228872/?GT1=38001
1 comment:
I like the quote. I think that's exactly what people go through - but not just in mid-life, more like many many times throughout one's life!
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