November 15, 2007
Now is not the time for mid life crises: What are you talking about, it's the perfect time for mid life crisis:
It really seems like all I ever do is work, pay bills and take care of kids. The point, isn't that what most people do? The good old American dream? Well in my pursuit of happiness, oh yeah, my lack of pursuit, I am doing what everyone else is. I am working harder, working smarter, making more, buying more....blah blah blah! What the heck happened here. I need to be living harder, smarter, and more more more. But of course, to do that at my stage of the game is simply ridiculous. Its simply mid life crisis. According to the social stigma of the American population, I need to keep on working, paying bills etc until I can't stand anymore and then I get to spend the rest of my life knitting in a rocking chair. Unless you are under 30, then it is perfectly acceptable to enjoy life. Well maybe none of that is true, but that is the belief structure stuck in my brain, and I'm sure I am not alone. I can't for the life of me figure out where it came from.
You know that 50 year old guy that goes out and buys the red sports car? The cliché for men's version of mid life crisis. Is that what it really is? Or did he just wake up one morning and figure out that the missing piece for the last 25 years was living. Of course, the ones that don't understand it, haven't figured it out yet, or are just too darn afraid of living because it has been so long will be the first to condemn. Everyone should be enjoying life, and living should be priority not work and possessions.
We have gotten so hung up in progress we have forgotten to live, to breath, to enjoy the gifts that have been bestowed on us. Just what is progress? Well that would be making the company you work for richer. Making the people that own the banks, electric companies, cable companies, phone companies and so on richer so they can kick back and enjoy life, while we forget what it is. And we actually have bought into it believing it is the dream. Someone's laughing somewhere and its not me.
So the heck with that, I'm off to midlife crisis. Now I don't believe for a second that enjoying life is acting like a 20 year old again. That makes me shiver just thinking about it. But I can certainly enjoy life by spending more time doing what I am passionate about. I suppose for some they actually believe working themselves to death makes them happy, but that's not me. So to those little molecules in my brain that have been molded to believe the wrong thing, you are being permanently evicted. So pack up and move on. I'm not going through mid life crisis, I'm alive again, like it or not. It is absolutely wonderful. So the next time you are feeling like what's it all for, take my advice, have a little mid life crisis of your own. You may find you like it and it will become a way of life. After all, people are living a lot longer these days. You probably aren't even close to the middle of your life. Who came up with that silly term? Probably someone that lived on fear. So don't be afraid, enjoy enjoy enjoy!!!!!! What's the worst than can happen, you end up in the same place you are now?
