I'm living the life I want, and I could care less about aging: I'm a biological being with a limited life span---look, youth was hard-edged being objectified all the time. I was waiting for the day for that shit to end.
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Is life perfect? Mid-house repairs, no. I'd like a proper bathroom--I dream of the day when my bathtub is installed. Otherwise, you'll find me walking across Sweden, learning bonsai, living expat life, writing, editing, and I assume, falling in love eventually. What crisis?
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Maybe later, when I suddenly realize I wanted 5 children and a house with a picket fence--but I've never wanted those things, that I can recall. Maybe my midlife crisis is around the bend?
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I wanted to be like Harriet the Spy/Pippi Longstocking/ women artists living in the Left Bank of Paris in the 1920's; I wanted adventures/books/cats/dogs ..to make things, help others, have meaningful work, find a spiritual path. I'm doing all those things. Imperfectly.
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Maybe I'm wrong though. I'm 51. Unless I'm living to 103, I am right in the epicenter of midlife--or towards the end of it, depending on when I die. Perhaps the supposed midlife crisis will drop any moment? Lots of books coming out about this topic.
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"Crisis" has a lot of negative connotations. But it is possible to reach a new bend at midlife. Certain things that were too far on the horizon come into focus more sharply. That's as it should be. We learn & evolve from our experiences. The sense of mortality can be a catalyst.
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True. I think there are moments like that throughout life though: medical issues, for example. I have a dreadful nerve disease, I've had it my whole life. It changed my perspective early on. Mortality is not catalyst for me, pain is.
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Love this

I’m 54 and haven’t had a mid life crisis either! 



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Now I feel more sane. There must be more of us out there! Followed!
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I see it as moments in life where we have to adapt our identity. My career is changing at the same time as my children become adults. Some charge forward looking for a new exciting identity and some just cruise it more slowly.
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absolutely this.
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