The meaning and experience around Menopause has been wrongly promoted as a milestone in the female life associated with the end of an era, the end of a season.
The true meaning allows a far more positive and exciting future.
A series of signpostsof major and minor significance based around the natural, the mental and the spiritual provide a collection names making up the process of a life.
A milestone is alwaysassociated withthecompletion through personal experience of eachpersonal battlefrom any of the well known signposts.
The season spent in acquiring the victory orthe achievementwould always have been clouded in a varying array of related challenges.
These would be forgotten once the victory became a milestone and opened the door to a better future.
The first job notes the beginning of the financial or professional signposts whilst the appointment to a much sought after job could be seen as a milestone if the study has been long, the competition fierce and the title or task of the job matched to a long and strong focus.
Menopause is an experience for all females.
It is a natural process with a gigantic list of experiences within a time frame and age bracket.
It is, for most of us a signpost on the way to a milestone.
Even those who may have had long, difficult, challenging and unique experiences requiring medication, operations and counseling hindering them from a new life with a fresh start may interpret it as signpost on the way to greater things.
Copyright 2006 Patricia Little