Fractured

Your 60's can become a decade of reconciliation and clean up. We have lived for years with a well honed mask which is now fractured thanks to authenticity coming to the fore. 

This process can sometimes feel unsettling. 

We had spent much time and effort to meet expectation and after a while it became second nature. We operated on reflex and melded the real us with the fashioned persona on the assumption after a while that they were one and the same. 

They aren't. 

Separating the real you from the social persona then becomes challenging because what we had melded together now begs to be properly undone. It's never a clean process. 

Good thing that age tends to bring both maturity and patience.