Re:The Roots of Midlife Crisis
by DennisP on Thursday November 20, 2014 @04:44PM
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That's partly it. Sometimes another part is that you find yourself with the ability to do those things you wanted to do someday.
I always feel a bit sorry for guys in this age bracket who buy expensive sports cars, only to hear everybody call it a midlife crisis. Maybe they wanted a car like that since they were 18, and just couldn't afford it until now.
Personally I'm 48 and just resigned from my comfortable, well-paying job to spend a year on my own trying to build my own variation of Xanadu. Maybe it's a midlife crisis. But it's something I've wanted to do for over a decade, and I didn't feel financially comfortable doing it until now.
But at the same time, in the back of my mind I'm also thinking that if I don't do it soon, I won't ever do it, and I'll always wonder what might have been.
There's an alternative to guarding against desire because someday never happens, and that's to make it happen. Read that bedtime story, talk to that relative, get that masters, do that startup.
I always feel a bit sorry for guys in this age bracket who buy expensive sports cars, only to hear everybody call it a midlife crisis. Maybe they wanted a car like that since they were 18, and just couldn't afford it until now.
Personally I'm 48 and just resigned from my comfortable, well-paying job to spend a year on my own trying to build my own variation of Xanadu. Maybe it's a midlife crisis. But it's something I've wanted to do for over a decade, and I didn't feel financially comfortable doing it until now.
But at the same time, in the back of my mind I'm also thinking that if I don't do it soon, I won't ever do it, and I'll always wonder what might have been.
There's an alternative to guarding against desire because someday never happens, and that's to make it happen. Read that bedtime story, talk to that relative, get that masters, do that startup.