What is a mid-life crisis anyway?

At first I thought I was too young to be in a mid-life crisis. Hell, I'm only 32. Yet, when I made a google search for the textbook definition of a mid-life crisis, I came up with the following:

'Mid-life transition' is something that happens to many of us at some point during our lives (usually, at about 40, give or take 20 years). It is a natural process (first identified by the psychologist Carl Jung) and it is a normal part of 'maturing'.

However, it can feel very uncomfortable, and you can experience a wide range of feelings whilst it is happening, such as:

1. Discontent with life and/or the lifestyle that may have provided happiness for many years;

2. Boredom with things/people that have hitherto held great interest and dominated your life;

3. Feeling adventurous and wanting to do something completely different;

4. Questioning the meaning of life, and the validity of decisions clearly and easily made years before;

5. Confusion about who you are, or where your life is going.

Hmmm...fits me like a glove...scary :-)

Comments

BlindSpot said…
You're in no way experiencing mid-life crisis. You're just too busy finding out ways to explain why things are they way they are. As how Carl Jung puts it in this commentary, most of us do get bored when life offers the same things over and over again. It's always a cycle and I guess life poses different lessons in every move we make and when we fail to realize them, we get to take the same obstacles again and again until we do so. Get the picture? Boy leaves girl, girl leaves boy. Boy gets a new girl then eventually leaves girl#2 for another and so the story goes. HEck where am I gettin at? Dear, I just want you to know that maybe, just maybe you haven't learned your lesson yet so instead of trying to have science explain it, just go with the flow. You're a very smart guy and in being so you must have missed what beauty life may have posted for you in so many ways because you are so packed with life's exppanations here and there. There are a lot of "what-ifs" in life...I guess the "what-is" is what should really matter. Try smelling the flowers ;)
December 03, 2004 8:33 PM
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