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 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

[HappyHammer]

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

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

[Christopha]

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

[HappyHammer]

Can I have yours.....

HH.

[Christopha]

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

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

[HappyHammer]

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

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!