Mid Life Crisis....

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?

[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.

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.

Women have an excuse: They call it menopause.

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:

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Originally Posted by ozwinner

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

Al :confused:

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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

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:

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Women have an excuse: They call it menopause.

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Men just call it menoPorsche :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by ozwinner

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

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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).

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.

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

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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