Denying, Resisting, Grieving, and Slowly Accepting I Am Middle Aged

It’s taking longer than expected

If you know, you know. Photo by Aleksander Saks on Unsplash

The Sudden Realization

I am in middle age. Depending on the metric I have been middle-aged for a few years. But for some reason, on the eve of my 51st birthday, it is just now sinking in. I mean, really sinking in.