Mid Life Crisis....

[HappyHammer]

Guys,

suggested in another thread that I might be heading for a midlife crisis and he may be right:eek:

As most of you are older than me :D I thought I'd tap into your experience and get you to share yours or "your friends" midlife crisis stories.....help me recognise the symptoms....

HH.

[DaveInOz]

Lets see, the over whelming desire to tell the whole of the consummerist society to take a jump, ditch the job and get an apprenticship in something useful, a desire to prove that there is more to life than work and money.
Haven't done it ..... can't put the kids on the street :rolleyes:

[HappyHammer]

You're a year younger than me Dave....your time will come because you've obviously already thought about it.;) :D

HH.

[silentC]

First off, what is mid-life? I'll be lucky to live past 60, I'm 39, so that means I'm well past the mid point. No crisis yet, so what have I missed?

[Termite]

See other post.

[HappyHammer]

When I turned 40 I left the ***** to her boyfriend, chucked my job and travelled overseas for 12 months. When I came back I got a job, bought a BMW motorbike and spent every spare moment for the next 6 years travelling Australia on my own.
Then just when I figured that I could go through life on my own along came the present SWMBO, the best thing to ever happen to me.
In retrospect, I'm not the same person as when I was 40, different values and attitudes. I'm still an arrogant bastard, though I've learnt to control it a bit.
Wouldn't recommend this course of action for anyone, but it did the trick for me. ;)
Here's an example SC.

[Daddles]

I had my first mid-life crisis when the govt told me they no longer wanted my services.
So I took the package and became a full time writer.
I had my second mid-life crisis when I realised I wasn't very good.

That was eight years ago.
Six years ago, I met my second wife. Bad move. She took up with an old boyfriend and it's now lawyers at 20 paces.
So I'm having another crisis. Fortunately, not a mid-life crisis because I am now a good writer and the kids are happy.

I've probably got another two years of my writing apprenticeship to go. Ten years is about right and I'm close to producing the million words they reckon you need to be any good. My work's strong enough now, it's just getting the right product in the right place at the right time. But I must confess, I could without the distractions.

I've decided not to indulge in a third midlife crisis. I'm happy being a poverty stricken writer suffering for his craft. The image of the story telling ratbag seems to fit me and I can claim any incipient midlife crisis like behaviour on my 'creative personality'.

That's my story.
If you don't like it, I'll dream up another tomorrow.

Richard

[Termite]

The only crisis at the moment is deciding which solitaire game to play while I'm waiting for new posts to come up while I'm waiting for 12 noon so I can tell everyone here to knock off and hit the prawns and then go home. Decisions Decisions :rolleyes:

[Christopha]

Mid life crisis at 35? :eek: As I said in the 'other' post......
GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!

[HappyHammer]

Can I have yours.....:rolleyes:

HH.

[Christopha]

Sorry but a bored old fart like yourself just couldn't handle the pace.... :D

My son says you can't have it either unless you knocked up his Mum when you were 14! :p

[HappyHammer]

Damn, didn't lose my virginity until I was 16 so couldn't have been me....did I miss much? :D ;) :D

HH.

[Christopha]

Son has left the room looking worried...........

[echnidna]

Yeah its amazing how easily you can embarass your kids once they become adults. ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

[Kev Y.]

My current object of desire tells me I am well into my "MLC". I have the "younger woman", now all she is waiting for is the motorbike.!

The other parts of the crisis are not all that encouraging, costly and a long drawout affair!

[Wood Borer]

I reckon it is the time of life when you start seeing through all the lies and broken promises of politicians, salesmen, businessmen, etc and you start figuring out the truth. You are then less likely to be ripped off and conned so the conmen invented the term mid life crisis so they can send you a bill for diagnosing, counseling taking legal action, consoling etc.

How you cope with coming face to face with reality may vary from person to person – it probably depends on how easily you have been duped in the past.

Those with their heads in the sand would question their lifestyle and directions only when they reach middle age. You should have been doing it all your life! The shock of suddenly realising there is more to life than your mundane job and existence probably makes some people go off into orbit a bit too.

So HH, why are you so keen to find out if you are about to splatter or bounce? Looking into the future could be dangerous.

Do you think you can change the consequences by taking some form of action prior to the event? I have no idea about that but it could be a topic of conversation over a beer or two sitting around the camp fire.

Do you think women suffer from this form of mid life crisis or is it exclusively for us blokes?

[Christopha]

[QUOTE=Wood Borer]I reckon it is the time of life when you start seeing through all the lies and broken promises of politicians, salesmen, businessmen, etc and you start figuring out the truth. You are then less likely to be ripped off and conned so the conmen invented the term mid life crisis so they can send you a bill for diagnosing, counseling taking legal action, consoling etc.[QUOTE]

I reckon that if it takes you past your 8th birthday to work that out then you are in for an MLC round about puberty.......


MLCs' are an excuse for doing the stuff you haven't been able to before, nothing more.

[HappyHammer]

WB,

I think women have positioned the male mid life crisis as buying sports cars and running off with the secretary that's not what is on my mind at all.

I think my MLC if that's what it is is more like your description of always knowing I was on the wrong path but having not done anything about it. There is no revelation, I've always known that office life was a means to an end, namely money and nothing else. I am now fortunate enough to be able to do something about it without putting myself and my family on the bread line, I'll keep you posted on my progress.

HH.

[RETIRED]

Women have an excuse: They call it menopause.

[ozwinner]

Ill be 50 in 3 months, that means Ill live to at least 100 as I havent had a MLC as yet.

Actualy Im getting a bit peeved at all this talk of MLC, Im missing out on something again, is there a shop I can buy me one from?

Al :confused:

[Rocker]

Ill be 50 in 3 months, that means Ill live to at least 100 as I havent had a MLC as yet.

Al :confused:

Al,

Didn't you just decide that there were easier ways of earning a living than laying bricks? I think that counts as a MLC :)

Rocker

[ozwinner]

I/we didnt see it as a crisis, just a change in direction.
If thats all a MLC is, Im with Stoppers.
GET A LIFE

Al :confused:

[craigb]

Women have an excuse: They call it menopause.

Men just call it menoPorsche :rolleyes:

[Driver]

Ill be 50 in 3 months, that means Ill live to at least 100 as I havent had a MLC as yet.
Al :confused:

Al, you beat me to it. I was thinking the same way. I'm 57 and I haven't had an MLC yet either. So it looks like I'm going to make at least 114! Which, in turn, means I've got plenty of time to finish all those jobs on the list that my loved one keeps adding things to!

Actually, 114 may not be out of the question. My dear old Mum is 93 and she's in pretty good nick. If I make 114, I hope I'll be as fit as Mum at that age.

Incidentally, I don't reckon the Porsche and the aviator shades are the real signs. It's the Grecian 2000 orange hair colourant and the dead moggy hairpiece that are the real MLC tell-tales.

Col (the bald and grey).

[journeyman Mick]

I reckon a mid-life crisis is a luxury reserved for people living in an affluent society. I'm sure hunter-gatherer type warriors didn't wake up one morning in their mid-life and start wondering whether they might not want to do something else. I reckon Wood Borer is on the money which ties in with my idea. When you live in a simpler/less affluent society there's not a whole pile of cr@p distracting you from what's important in life. Know what's important in life, stick with it, don't waste your money and more importantly your time on that which isn't worthy of it - in short- Get A Life. Changes of career or direction are fine, but it is important to have a direction.

Mick the crisis-less mid lifer.

[bitingmidge]

I'm sure hunter-gatherer type warriors didn't wake up one morning in their mid-life

I guess that's the root of the problem Mick, one morning in what should have been their mid-life, hunter-gatherer type warriors didn't wake up!!
:(

Cheers,

P (anxiously awaiting mid-life!)
:D