Mid Life Crisis

[Misty_Morning]

Can you recognize one?

I saw it coming when I was married. My ex was going through it. I saw it and all his family and friends saw it.

Now I am wondering if it is my turn.

Maybe I have been in the "crisis" for a while. I dunno.

I find that the things in life that brought me pleasure no longer do.

I am restless. Yearning for something "more".

But then again, maybe I am just in need of a break from life.


It just gets me thinking about the differences that men and women perceive as that "Mid life" crisis.


Does it really exist?


Have you experienced it?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Can you recognize one?

I saw it coming when I was married. My ex was going through it. I saw it and all his family and friends saw it.

Now I am wondering if it is my turn.

Maybe I have been in the "crisis" for a while. I dunno.

I find that the things in life that brought me pleasure no longer do.

I am restless. Yearning for something "more".

But then again, maybe I am just in need of a break from life.


It just gets me thinking about the differences that men and women perceive as that "Mid life" crisis.


Does it really exist?


Have you experienced it?

I never considered it a crisis. Rather, the added income that one's middle years often produce make it an opportunity. Since turning 50 I have:
gone on safari (5 times)
gotten an advanced degree (and intend to get another)
learned to draw and paint
learned to build furniture
explored (through books) alternate sexualities . . . and found they don't appeal.
joined Lit and learned to write fiction

So where's the crisis?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Can you recognize one?

I saw it coming when I was married. My ex was going through it. I saw it and all his family and friends saw it.

Now I am wondering if it is my turn.

Maybe I have been in the "crisis" for a while. I dunno.

I find that the things in life that brought me pleasure no longer do.

I am restless. Yearning for something "more".

But then again, maybe I am just in need of a break from life.


It just gets me thinking about the differences that men and women perceive as that "Mid life" crisis.


Does it really exist?


Have you experienced it?

I started going through some extreme changes when I was in my thirties. I was forty years old when I started to college, and I got married that same year. I didn't think of it as a "mid-life" anything; I thought of it as things I should have done years earlier.

 

[TE999]

A mid-life crisis for a guy is buying a Vette or a Beamer ragtop, dressing like the kids at the skate park and boinking some 20-something fluffhead chicklet.

Personal growth is going to college, learning a skill or a trade, volunteering to help people...that sort of thing.

You may just be in a rut Misty. Time to dig your way out and try something new.

 

[Misty_Morning]

A mid-life crisis for a guy is buying a Vette or a Beamer ragtop, dressing like the kids at the skate park and boinking some 20-something fluffhead chicklet.

Personal growth is going to college, learning a skill or a trade, volunteering to help people...that sort of thing.

You may just be in a rut Misty. Time to dig your way out and try something new.

I think I am.

Tom, has anyone told you lately just how wonderful and lovely you are?

If not...I think it's time.

 

[TE999]

I think I am.

Tom, has anyone told you lately just how wonderful and lovely you are?

If not...I think it's time.

Awwww...thanks Misty.

I just try to help my friends when I can.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Oh! I think a mid-life crisis is when you get to your dream and discover it sux. You invested years and a fortune getting to it, and it sux.

The Vettes and babes and etc is the psychotic denial that follows the discovery.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Mid-life? Where's that around fifty? All my greatgrandparents lived well into their 100's My grandparents well into their late 90's.

So my mid-life crisis is just starting at 58.

Hell no.

 

[Lady Reiha]

My mid-life crisis will only occur if the following happens:

1. No more porn/hentai
2. The world becomes totally serious.
3. They discontinue Cheesenips, Pocky, Swiss Cheese and Dumplings
4. Polar Bears and Sharks die.
5. Appy contacts a virus
6. The internet dies forever.
7. Cookie Monster is actually a vegetarian
8. Cough Syrup kills spiders
9. Chronie dies
10. Windows suddenly melt.

 

[damppanties]

Mid-life? I thought you were just starting your life. It's not the years, it's the experience.

Also, you know I second TE. Go out and live.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

We can dig out of ruts together. I'm right there with you and needed to change somethings.

 

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

Can you recognize one?

I saw it coming when I was married. My ex was going through it. I saw it and all his family and friends saw it.

Now I am wondering if it is my turn.

Maybe I have been in the "crisis" for a while. I dunno.

I find that the things in life that brought me pleasure no longer do.

I am restless. Yearning for something "more".

But then again, maybe I am just in need of a break from life.


It just gets me thinking about the differences that men and women perceive as that "Mid life" crisis.


Does it really exist?


Have you experienced it?

I had a hot love affair and then bought a sportcar. I still have to sportscar (lol).

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Oh dear, here's the bear putting on his teacher hat again. Okay, all you rut-busters, go to Amazon.com and buy a book called Mindset. It will put you on the right track. If I hadn't started doing all these off-the-wall things by myself, I'd have thought I was clarivoy-ing reading it 11 years early.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Oh! I think a mid-life crisis is when you get to your dream and discover it sux. You invested years and a fortune getting to it, and it sux.

The Vettes and babes and etc is the psychotic denial that follows the discovery.

You're absolutely right. That is what a mid-life crisis is. You put it very succinctly too, which I admire.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You're absolutely right. That is what a mid-life crisis is. You put it very succinctly too, which I admire.

That's only if one has a single dream. A truly accomplished dreamer can always find another to pursue. I've decided to pursue learning French.

 

[DeeZire]

Oh! I think a mid-life crisis is when you get to your dream and discover it sux. You invested years and a fortune getting to it, and it sux..

+1 for JB. In two succinct sentences, he has summed up the materialistic American dream and pissed all over it. Way to go, my friend. I'm with you on this one.

Misty - If there were any born-again Christians around here, they'd probably tell you it's time to go back to church and give yourself to the Lord, or whatever it is you're supposed to do. Personally, I would compare that to getting strung out on drugs, except that a Bible is cheaper.

Perhaps you should consider taking up sailing. It would go nicely with you AV.