Ageing With Attitude: We need to live life at the crossroads

Psychologist Colm O’Connor invites us all to rise about the hardships of life, to hold on to hope and to show character, says Margaret Jennings.

AS we age and enter the so-called Second Half of Life we become far more attuned to our human vulnerability – struck by the awe of the privilege of being alive, but also the dread that it is slipping away.

It is how we walk the “ridge between awe and hope, and dread and fear” that is the real challenge of being a human, says Cork-based clinical psychologist and writer, Dr Colm O’Connor.