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A negotiation between these two ideas of time seems crucial in order for us to seek, if not a utopic completeness, at least a possible comprehension of our fifties.
Let’s make haste slowly.
Who are we and how do we achieve this that we are?
Octávio Paz
Ana: – Hey, are you around?
Martha: – No, I’m travelling.
Ana: – I wanted to ask you about something, but it can wait.
Martha:– No way. Tell me now.
Ana: – I’m sending you a small text about the matter by e-mail.
(The text talked about the possibility of studying women in their fifties; the challenges of the new middle age, of greater life expectancy, and the life projects that women are undertaking in this extended period.)
Martha: – I’m in!
In the middle of the path of our life,
I find myself in a dark jungle,
because the straight path had disappeared.
Dante Alighieri
Starting with Zeno
One must be 50 in order to talk about middle age and to feel it surrounding us. One must awaken one day without the certainties that once consoled us, and experience some degree of helplessness.