There are days when I want to scream in frustration. Some days I feel a shed load of regret over past decisions. There are other days when I feel grateful to have reached my 50s in relatively good health. There are even moments when I wonder whether I have a right to be suffering from …
Midlife Crisis
Why don’t people believe in the midlife crisis?
Why is it so blinking difficult to get people to talk about the midlife crisis? Bring the two words up and everyone, mentally, crosses the road to avoid talking about it. If forced to, people will go round and round in circles, like a lost driver looking for the right exit on a roundabout, before …
Can a midlife crisis actually be a good thing?
‘Good’ is not a word I would use to describe a midlife crisis. There are many other words I could use but these would be too rude to mention on a blog. I may use those words while, for example, speaking to another midlifer while downing a Mojito or something similarly midlifery like but I …
Is this what a male midlife crisis looks like?
Is dancing in a suit in a nightclub at the age of 54 a sign of a midlife crisis? You could pick a number of flaws in my question like, ‘so what if he was in a suit?’, or ‘can’t a man in his 50s go to a nightclub?’ You would be right in each …
The ‘Covid Midlife Crisis’. Is this you?
As if the midlife crisis isn’t bad enough in itself, along comes the ‘Covid Midlife Crisis’ to trip one up. I have been filled with ennui in the last month precipitated by ‘things getting back to normal’. The normal never fully worked for me. It was way too hectic in a way that was dictated …