Share Your Story
The Interlude Café is interested in lived experience that reveals where the old life script no longer fits.
Most of us grew up with an unspoken plan: study, work, save, retire, slow down. For a long time, that was a reasonable map. For a lot of people now, it no longer fits.
Work continues longer than expected. Money doesn't behave the way the plan assumed. Health, relationships, identity, and place do not always follow the old timeline either.
We'd like to hear from people who've actually lived this mismatch, because what you noticed along the way can help someone else see their own situation more clearly.
But not every kind of story does that, so it's worth being specific about what we mean. We're not looking for tidy "look what I did at my age" stories, neat before-and-after transformations, or reinvention tales. Those stories make age the interesting part, rather than the experience itself.
We're more interested in the moment the plan stopped working.
It could be a career that no longer made sense. A financial assumption that turned out to be wrong. A health change that changed what was possible. A relationship that didn't fit the categories it was supposed to. A decision, a loss, shock or opportunity that showed you the life model you inherited was not built for where you actually are.
It doesn't need to be dramatic. It doesn't need to be resolved. You don't need to have come out the other side with all the answers.
We know life's messy, and the most useful experiences often sit in the middle: what changed, what stopped working, what you had to rethink, and what only became clear afterwards.
If your experience could help someone else see their own situation more clearly, we'd like to hear it.
Email hello@interludecafe.com with the subject line: Story: [short description].
You might want to include:
- What changed?
- What stopped making sense?
- What assumption turned out to be wrong?
- What did you try first?
- What did you learn that might help someone else think more clearly?
