Keeping promises to everyone buy herself
Beth stares at herself in the bathroom mirror and sees a depressed, overworked woman. As she
has done many other times in her life, she asks her deceased twin, “Where did I go, Sissy?”
Wishing her sister could magically twirl a wand and make her life the one she always dreamed
of, not the one she's living.
She lets out a deep sigh because looking back at her is the same woman she was staring at
before. She walks into her bedroom and plops down on the bed. How is it possible that next
month she turns 50 years old? Where did the time go? Why has she continued to work at a job
she never wanted or stayed married to a man she should have divorced years ago? She just
wants to curl up in a ball, cry her heart out, eat chocolate and junk food and stay in bed for the
next two weeks and not attend her yearly master class.
Just then, in walks the bane of her existence, her husband Charles. Looking at him she
remembers the first time she had seen him and how her heart had beat faster. Now all she feels
is anger and it's boiling to the surface. He tells her it's her menopause acting out when she
knows it runs much deeper than that.
At the airport she feels a rebellion and freedom she had never felt before and does something
completely out of character; she decides to take a vacation. Except this vacation doesn’t turn
out anything like she thought it would. Within an hour of landing at her parents’ home in Florida,
she receives phone calls from two people she trusts, that her husband has been having an
affair. If that wasn’t bad enough, the next day she learns the lying, cheating scoundrel is trying to
sell her company, cheating her out of millions of dollars.
Even though her life feels as if it’s falling apart, synchronicities start to fall into place helping her
to discover there are no accidents in life. That even at 50 years old, she can start living the life
of her dreams, find love and be happy.
