Mid Life is not a Crisis

Baby, you can choose despair,
Or you can be happy if you dare.
So let me take you there....

-- Ian McEwan, Saturday p 170

So, dear reader, what is the difference between "mid-life crisis" and "mid-life awakening"?

Faith No More: "Mid Life Crisis" (for Danielle and all the Danielles to come)

We refer to mid Life Crisis as if we know what it is.

We don't.

We shouldn't even pretend we do.

Is it a selfish chase for the good life, an opportunity to catch up on missed chances, a reckless seizing of the moment?

Carpe Diem or Bust?

Is it truly the Pusuit of Happiness unbridled?

- The Pusuit of Happiness, as you know, was a semi-raucous punkish Canadian band fronted by a cynical Torontonian (by way of Edmonton) named Moe Berg that had a hit entitled "I'm an Adult Now"

("I can't afford any artificial joy




remember now?

Mid life - is what exactly?

It might be the intersection point between productive relevance and unproductive uselessness.

Or the tipping point when health only continues to fall off.

Or perhaps it is a time of endless questioning of self and self worth.

How did you measure up?

Me?

I'm fine.

I'm productive, relevant, and in the best health i have been in in fifteen years.

I am anticipating the next twenty - five years with eagerness and continue to seek passion.

I still want to lose myself in the two hundred projects I have left to do.

I like what I am doing.

I like where I am going.

Come along for the ride.

If you dare.

Being happy, as noted above, takes courage.

Get the courage.

Ask the hard questions.

Be great.

Interpol: "The Heinrich Maneuver"

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I really dig this video...