☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣'s Reviews > Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

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“Right in the middle of my life, I realized that I wasn’t where I wanted to be. It was like I’d wandered off the right path into a very, very bad neighborhood. I don’t even want to remember how scary that space was—makes me feel like I’m gonna die or something. I’m only telling you about it because a lot of good came of it in the long run. So anyway, I don’t even know how I ended up so far off course. I felt like I’d been sleepwalking.”—Dan, age 41

This story could have come from any one of the hundreds of people I’ve met in my office, classes, and seminars, but it didn’t. As a matter of fact, “Dan” is short for Dante, as in Dante Alighieri. The paragraph above is my own exceedingly loose rendition of the first twelve lines of The Divine Comedy, written in 1307. Sometimes I tell clients about it, because it helps them believe they aren’t the first people who’ve ever snapped awake at midlife, only to find themselves dazed, unhappy, and way off course. It’s been happening at least since the Middle Ages, and not only to the middle-aged. (c) Oh, this hooked me right in!