Like the dark horses and late bloomers in these two books, I didn’t see my life take off until later. This happened when I turned thirty-five and started my librarian job.
It’s precisely because most of us have experienced setbacks and taken detours that we have the freedom to decide for ourselves what our right path in life should be.
I didn’t publish my first book until I was forty-nine. Life is not a race to the finish line—we all know where that leads. The point is that you can make a comeback at any age.
I recommend you read the book Late Bloomers. I can attest to the validity of the tactics listed in this guide. This is because I’d been using these strategies long before I read about them in the book.
One thing I’d been doing before that was listed in the book was to write about myself using the third person. Using the word she.
As well I use my given name Chris Bruni in the Bruni in the City column I write for an independent mental health journal.
Late bloomers share these six traits: curiosity, compassion, resilience, insight, wisdom, and equanimity.
Reading this book should empower those of us who didn’t crash through the starting gate early in the horse race of life.
All hail the late bloomers.
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