Recently, at man-o-pause, I read a post which asked, Is the Quarterlife Crisis the New Midlife Crisis? The title referenced a book about life challenges for people in their twenties. After briefly speculating if that’s what the 1960s were really about, I started thinking about and looking into mid-life crisis.
Among other things, I found that there seems to be a chicken or egg question with respect to mid-life crisis. Specifically, according to research cited in The (Not) Inevitable Midlife Crisis, a post at LifeTwo, only about 23 percent of respondents said they had experienced a midlife crisis. Of those, only about eight percent connected their emotional turmoil to aging. Others attributed their turmoil to events, or psychological turning points, including loss of a job or loved ones, that just happened to occur at mid-life.
So, are you at mid-life, or even at quarter life? What’s your crisis? Do you even have one? As I see it, you probably have some choice in the matter.
A few years ago, a friend of mine, upon seeing a photo of me dancing on a table, at a Greek restaurant, with several of my wife’s friends, said, “Looks like you’re having a bit of a mid-life crisis there, Walter.” After reflecting for about three seconds, I responded that it looked like I was having a mid-life life. She agreed.
Upon further discussion, I let her know that having a mid-life life was the result of making better choices in several areas of living – from career to health and fitness to relationships. In many ways, I was starting to set an important foundation for my third age – ah, but that’s another post.
What about you? Are you ready to launch your mid-life life?
Contact me if you want to work on improving your level of mid-life satisfaction.
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