Handling the Seasons of Life

Vivian McInerny
2 min readSep 29, 2023

Facing the phase three

Image by Henry Gretzing from Freeimages.com

When I was a teen in the 1970s, I experienced a classic existential crisis. Though I’d never heard the term, or of Kierkegaard for that matter, I managed to bore my friends with angst-ridden monologues questioning the meaning of life. Why were we here? What was the point of it all? No one really knew. More importantly, the people I was hanging with at the time weren’t…

--

--

Vivian McInerny

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.