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The Honest Perspective Weekly Prompt — 17th — 23rd March
Let’s face that blank page together
Whether the ideas have slowed to a trickle or you’re just feeling curious and in the mood for a little reflection. Our weekly prompt is an invitation to ruminate on an idea and see what arises.
Be it poetry or prose you’d like to submit to us, or a journal entry for your eyes only, take a moment to pause at some point during your week and set your pen free.
Welcome to one of my favourite weeks of the year… my birthday week!
On Wednesday I turn 46 and as I tip into the realisation that I am now closer to 50 than 40 and therefore most definitely ‘middle aged’, I find myself reflecting not just on the year gone by, as I usually would, but on the nature of ageing in the modern world.
Birthdays mark time. A candle for each year, a quiet tally of the life lived so far. We celebrate, we reflect, we joke about getting older — as if ageing is something to fear, something we can laugh off, something we should manage carefully. And while I think this is in large part a response to our often unspoken fear of death, it feels as though age and ageing means something very different now than it did when I was a teen. Lol, I sound old saying that but when I think about what 50 looked like in the 90s, it…
