your thoughts on the midlife crisis

[moon man]

i think unless your a robot or not much to lose (harsh statement maybe ?) this happens as you naturally adapt to the different stages in your life

 

[Freefaller]

Spotting a midlife crisis is easy - it's when you get a belly and buy a porsche.

I've got a 6 pack and a Skoda. I'm miles off then despite being in my 40s

My kids keep me feeling young to be honest. I'm focusing my time and effort on them. Keeps life exciting.

 

[Maccy]

I've got a 6 pack and a Skoda. I'm miles off then despite being in my 40s

My kids keep me feeling young to be honest. I'm focusing my time and effort on them. Keeps life exciting.

You’ve already had yours when you had the 350z

 

[Uther]

I never had one either, and I'm 60.

Will be hitting 60 next, so working on a 3/4 life crisis.

 

[dave28]

Its just a made up thing, getting a load a tattoos and buying a motor bike is just plain foolish. They can call it what they like

 

[krooton]

Lots of cats - Check
Traveling a lot, especially cruises - Check
Fast car/motorbike - I don't even have a license
Still DJing/making music - Check
Putting more effort into health & fitness - Check
Enjoying chilling at home with the wife - Check

Early 40s, and I think I will be skipping the mid-life crisis as I am already playing a game of flipping between 20s fun and being retired

 

[adam cool dude]

I think I was approaching one but then had a second child and that soon changed. I think kids are an important part of life. I am hoping for plenty of grand children to look after when I get older.

 

[Hagar]

Retiring while not something to yearn for, live a little first, is a second teen /twenties without the angst. I can grow my hair, wear what I like, do mostly what I like or nothing at all. Revisit old vinyl. Less driving more cycling. Go places. Don't stress about the news.
So maybe the midlife crisis has translated to late fifties and early sixties just before you give up the day job for a well earned rest.

 

[Freefaller]

You’ve already had yours when you had the 350z

Wow - early bloomer! Or should I say, early boomer?

 

[malachi]

I turned 40 last December. Spent my birthday relaxing on the beach in Morocco, thinking about the last 40 years. It put a smile on my face as I am fit and healthy because I didn't smoke or drink my younger years away. Something too many take for granted.

Midlife crisis....nah. More like First World problems.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

I'm hot as hell* and do not have time** for another meltdown thank you very much.

* true
** false

 

[newuser]

Well I'm mid 50s and still waiting for mine.
On the upside that means I'll live to be at least 110.
I'm still working on the assumption that I'm immortal. Yet to be proved wrong.

 

[Stu999]

You’re supposed to trade your gf in for a younger blonde too. Don’t forget that part.

 

[Uther]

You’re supposed to trade your gf in for a younger blonde too. Don’t forget that part.

Blondes are mental, I'll stick to red headed Irish girls thanks!

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

You’re supposed to trade your gf in for a younger blonde too. Don’t forget that part.

It's not the year it was made, it is the number of previous owners and how it has been treated .

I bought my MX5 age 24 (over 10y ago). I think I must have had my crisis then.

 

[malachi]

You’re supposed to trade your gf in for a younger blonde too. Don’t forget that part.

Hard to tell these days when they are all dying their hair all sorts of colours of the rainbow.

 

[drakulton]

At weekends, I run round the works carpark in a VR headset like a kid on blue smarties. is this a midlife crisis or puberty?

 

[Tykey]

I turned 50 last month, I bought a fast bike & car last year but i've been buying such things off and on & when I could afford it since the age of 19 so don't think it's a mid life crisis.

 

[regulus]

Just turned 44.

Been going through it in some way or another recently. The past few years actually. Ticked all the main boxes in life. House, offspring, respectable and well compensated career. Nowhere else to go from here really. Higher positions, higher pay, don't need the money or the stress. The past three years have been much of the same. Prior to that my life always seemed to be in flux. Always running, scheming, hustling, and trying to get somewhere.

I’m in a pretty enviable position, but somehow it all feels very ‘meh’ some days. I’ve lost interest in most of the things I happily did in my 20s and 30s. These days I only seem to want to exercise, read, hang with my family, hike, and do stuff around the house. Don’t even really care about travelling any more. Although I am heading over to Australia twice more this year with a big European trip starting in February. I can take it or leave it.

Believe me, if it was a question of just buying more stuff like some in the thread is doing, it’ll make my life a million times easier. If I cared about screaming for a sports ball team of some sort, or even a political ‘team’, my life would be a million times easier.

And then there’s the people in my life getting older, people dying, people changing. I knew ageing is a thing obviously, but it all seemed very abstract when you’re younger. Until the cold reality of it sets in and you realize it’s all true and very real, and happening to you.

I should definitely count my blessings more and remember that there’s billions of people in the world that would just about give anything to swap positions with me.

 

[cjgardens]

For me, I think a midlife crisis is, being fat and bald, then getting a Saab convertible