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Have any of you ever experienced a mid life crisis? No? Well, I'm here to tell you that it can be a lengthy process. What I can't tell you, is if it ever ends. I have my doubts. Serious doubts. I keep hoping that I'm at least over the hump, but today felt like day one again.
I keep wondering, why me? I was mostly obedient to life. I did my fair share of the things that life sends its mere mortals on the path to do. At least the ones that suited me. It was when I crossed my "last" big hurdle, that it hit me. I was happily resting on my laurels, when ... KAPOW! The sneaky bastard tripped me, and while I was down, it put its foot on my throat, nearly squeezing the life out of me. For all of you shiny brights out there, I hope mid life never finds your weak spot.
Don't make the same mistake that I did. If you never find someone that you can see yourself with for the rest of your life, and if you never have children, and you complete most of your goals, don't let any time pass before you find a new goal. A new purpose. A new life. Because, I am here to tell you, that no matter how much you try to tell the mid life crisis that you are fine just the way you are, it won't let you have a moment of peace. It cannot abide in mediocrity. If it never achieves its full potential, it will torment you all of the days of your life. You will have a tiger by its tail, and unless you are a tiger tamer, or have a tranquilizer gun, you are in for a nasty fight.
If you have tangled with the tiger and lived to tell about it, I could use a mentor.
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We all have to go through a mid-life crisis. I think it say so in the Bible or someplace. Maybe one of my Psych classes. Anyway, growing old is not for the weak and timid. And you get to be old by surviving the crisis. I know you will come out the other side wiser and stronger.
ReplyDeleteGetting old isn't for sissies - the knees ache, the plumbing leaks...
ReplyDeletePerhaps that saying, "Only the good die young" is correct... in some weird way...
Anyhooo.. being a single guy without "other" and children (and never had 'em), I can understand what you are going through (except the woman's instinctual desire to have a child part) ... I've no words of help.
I'm just prepared to see "the end" having done enough... perhaps I need a few new goals too... maybe we could share thoughts on what they might be with each other... getting out the rut to nowhere has been difficult.