I’m 40 and I think it’s about time I had a mid-life crisis.
I know that by the time I’m old enough to be considered “old” my life expectancy will be at least 100 which means I shouldn’t really have this mid-life crisis until I’m 50. However that would mean I’m in crisis at the same time as my kids are hormonally crazy and sitting final exams, and stuff, and that wouldn’t be at all funny, or fun. So, I’ve decided to get it over and done with NOW. And I really want to enjoy it.
Problem is I can’t decide what crazy stuff to do.
If Firegazer was having one of his (many) mid-life crises he would buy a sports car, climb a mountain, take up golf, again, or buy loads of sporting/camping/hobby equipment that he would use once and then leave lying in the back shed. But nah, that’s not me. I'm hoping to REALLY annoy people.
So what do you reckon:
Shall I ...
Problem is I can’t decide what crazy stuff to do.
If Firegazer was having one of his (many) mid-life crises he would buy a sports car, climb a mountain, take up golf, again, or buy loads of sporting/camping/hobby equipment that he would use once and then leave lying in the back shed. But nah, that’s not me. I'm hoping to REALLY annoy people.
So what do you reckon:
Shall I ...
Re-live the days when I thought being a Mod or a Punk would be fun? 
[image courtesy: http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/]
Get a whole-new-look?
Convert our yard into an eco-friendly-environmental-showpony? 
Drive a completely un-eco-friendly-unenvironmental showpony?
Or, heaven-forbid, get a job that will pay actual money?
Maybe I'll just sit at home, ignore the washing, ironing and cooking and watch the family flounder while I amuse myself reading, knitting,blogging and looking up useless facts on the Internet.
Does anyone want to join me?
8 comments:
Silly. That blogging knitting thing wouldn't be a mid-life crisis!! That is just perfectly normal acceptable behaviour.
I will have a vicarous mid-life crises with you, though I'm not yet forty. We should have known you were in trouble when you started knitting in public!
Join you? I'm already there. Apart from the knitting, of course.
I took a whole year off work the year that I turned 40. The first time I had EVER stayed home alone. I extended the mortgage and bought an enormous sewing machine, started blogging, stopped washing, created beautiful stuff. It was bliss.
I may need to do it again soon, since you have made such a generous offer!
I'm happy to join you in any of those options - er - except getting a job - that would not be a good idea at all in our family right now.
The last option sounds - strangely compelling.
Dude, I am so close to just quitting my job. So.very.close.
I feel like the last 12 months have been a mid life crisis for me. But not in a good way. Mine involves wanting to run away by myself and to be totally selfish and only worry about myself. Spoil myself. And to do nothing unless it is for myself. Not speak unless I want. Not answer a phone. Say what's on my mind without worrying I will upset someone or hurt some one's feeling's.
Somehow I don't think that is the type of MLC you speak of.
Hey, I can heartily recommend a mid-life crisis. But you really do need to do it properly, and I can see that you're going about it just the right way.
We started ours in Perth when we were 46, and a few years later, it's brought us to the US, where we've been having a fabbo time! No looking back!
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