The work that gave you meaning at thirty may not give you meaning at fifty. The hobby that sustained you during one phase may feel empty in another. This is not a crisis. It is a season turning. Mono no aware applies to purpose as well as to beauty: your ikigai was real while it lasted, and the fact that it has shifted does not diminish what it gave you.

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