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[quote=Anonymous]I totally get what you are feeling and feel much the same way.

But there are lots of people who did lots of great things after middle age.  The founder of the Girl Scouts, as one example, was childless and middle aged and also basically broke after her awful husband gambled away all her family money and left her for a younger woman.  But instead of crawling up into a ball, she founded an organization that helped young girls for a century.  One thing I’ve thought about is many e just to volunteer to run a GS troop for girls in a working class neighborhood where the moms don’t have the ability to volunteer to do that sort of thing.

My own grandmother was widowed at 50 so went back to work and had a whole different career and made a lot of younger friends.

I have a neighbor that volunteers as a docent at the zoo and know another that reads books to kids at childrens hospital.

There are a lot of ways to make your life meaningful to others and you never know — maybe after volunteering in one of these roles, you will figure out an exciting new chapter for yourself.  And even if there’s not an exciting new chapter, you can make things a little nicer for someone else.  
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