Reply to: Midlife crisis

[oracleslave]

I've caught myself considering a Porsche, an XK8, and even more worrying, a Westfield 7...

Live a little and get all 3

[PropertyCrashUK]

Start here...

Well, you can start here and go view this, listen to the words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VBBU1RNWo

and then here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64Ca...eature=related

and then read this;

'The Joy of Burnout - How the end of the world can be a new beginning' by Dina Glouberman

Consider a holiday here;

http://www.skyros.co.uk

Or you can have the heart attack, or the break down, or the panic attacks, or the breathing problems, or the agroaphobia or all of them and end up in A&E several times.

Mid life crisis are much joked about but many die and many get completely ****ed up by them.

[Mr Crosby]

Been there, done it

[wendigo100]

Don't ask me mate, I've never had a midlife crisis!


Now, where's the keys to my Boxster and my leather trousers.....

Of course, godlike beings don't need them!

[DimPrawn]

That's what I thought.

So suddenly dying your hair blue, shagging students and riding Harleys is a sort of "grab what you can with what's left" kind of reaction.

How long does this last?

Don't ask me mate, I've never had a midlife crisis!


Now, where's the keys to my Boxster and my leather trousers.....

[wendigo100]

Yes, a sort of "fook, it's all downhill from here on in" mindset.

Body, mind and soul

That's what I thought.

So suddenly dying your hair blue, shagging students and riding Harleys is a sort of "grab what you can with what's left" kind of reaction.

How long does this last?

[DimPrawn]

Isn't midlife crisis the point when you suddenly realise that the vague future you dream of, where all things are possible, is behind you?

Yes, a sort of "fook, it's all downhill from here on in" mindset.

Body, mind and soul

[Francko]

Anyone had one, having one or just looking foreward to having one.

You can never be sure when you are at mid-life and therefore a mid-life crisis has no reason to exist.

[PRC1964]

Two of my neighbours (both in their 50s) have bought Harleys in the last year.

They use them about once a month, driving very slowly and wobbly aound Surrey before bringing them back to be lovingly polished for a couple of hours.

My midlife crisis is going to be more fun than that.

[wendigo100]

Isn't midlife crisis the point when you suddenly realise that the vague future you dream of, where all things are possible, is behind you?

[cailin maith]

what did he do after that?

Shagged them - 2 of them, not at the same time I don't think but then I left him!

I thought only old women dyed thier hair blue?

I know

[Chugnut]

Take a look at one of those lists of "100 things to do before you die", pick some you fancy doing and just get on with it. Do you want to be on your death bed thinking "I wish I'd done xxxxx".

1. Take your head out of the oven.

[DimPrawn]

Do you want to be on your death bed thinking "I wish I'd done xxxxx".

Where xxxxx is a girls name?

[Chugnut]

I thought only old women dyed thier hair blue?

No, there was that bloke in X-Men 2. But he was a film character so not the same really, I suppose.

HTH

[WotNxt]

Anyone had one, having one or just looking foreward to having one.

Pre-empt it to reduce the shock and prolong the pleasurable aspects.

e.g. start it early, say around age 30 and make it last as long as possible.

Far more fun. Besides I probably won't make it to "mid-life" age anyway what with my "enjoy life while it lasts outlook" so best to start early or I would just miss out.

Take a look at one of those lists of "100 things to do before you die", pick some you fancy doing and just get on with it. Do you want to be on your death bed thinking "I wish I'd done xxxxx".