An Endorphin Release Now Please!: An Expose of the Sandwich Generation (en Inglés)
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With all the demands placed on us, our millennial children's delayed launches and our elders living into centennial years, no wonder we need those endorphins to help us endure and survive the sandwich generation we have become. It's a phenomenon that prior generations didn't necessarily have to endure. Their elders passed in their 60's and 70's. Children were conceived in the early twenties, moved out and married with children when their parents were in their forties. Myself at age 58, and husband age 62, have children still needing us in their late twenties plus active elders in eighties, nineties and one-hundreds still wanting social interaction, entertainment, or us tending to their needs as they muddle through our technological impersonal and increasingly complicated world. Rakijian, in her third book, provides a close and personal magnified examination of all that the sandwich generation struggles with. An emotional memoir of interactions with her two children and the once six elders that she and her family interacted with. By the time of this publication, six has become two, while she and her husband approach retirement years with a degree of shock and bewilderment as to how fast the years have gone. The realization of how to keep endorphins going in order to remain happy, healthy, active and resilient while tending to others needs, often before your own as the sandwich generation has forcefully learned to do! As with her other two books, But She's Not a Guy, and The Manager from Hell, Rakijian keeps it very real, raw, and honest! Her poetic and faith-based philosophies come through and are integrated in the lines and pages of her book. Without her faith and the Good Lord above, it would be very difficult to sustain ones sanity given the on slot of demands the sandwich generation grapples with. Her hope is that someone gains some inkling of hope knowing that they are not alone and, in the least, laugh at our mutual experiences of being squished in the middle!
