Mid-life crises

[JimC]

I'm over mine...

I took the gin cure...

[hadespussercats]

I'm over mine...

I took the gin cure...

Hmmm. Seems you still need a regular dosage!

[tattuchu]

I'm over mine...

I took the gin cure...

I'm sleeping mine off

[Svartalf]

I'm over mine...

I took the gin cure...

Hmmm. Seems you still need a regular dosage!

It's not for the crisis, he's just addicted to it now.

[amused]

I've recently worked through a reinvention phase of my life, which is not quite complete but close enough to comment here. So far I've encountered two comments that seem applicable. At mid-life the concern is about being closer to the end than to the beginning, so I think both of these examples apply.

The first is a poem by Dylan Thomas:

Title: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


A more succinct version of that sentiment is expressed by Ned Batty, a replicant in the movie Blade Runner. Replicants are biological creations of the Tyrell Corporation with a shortened lifespan so there is a safety cutoff. When Ned meets his maker, the head of the Tyrell Corporation who created him, Tyrell asks Ned, 'What can I do for you?'

Ned answers, 'I want more life, fucker.'

If there is a maker, I'd say the same.

[laklak]

Sounds very complicated. Go with the Gin Cure.

[Kristie]

Going to a good-sized meet sounds like a great way to make a happy Ian.

Especially if you're there.

UPDATE: Going to the Train Wreck did indeed make me happy. Happy enough for me to start plotting the next one at my house. I've just gotta figure out when the wife's going to be away...


Still no golf or mistress hobby though.

[Bella Fortuna]

Going to a good-sized meet sounds like a great way to make a happy Ian.

Especially if you're there.

UPDATE: Going to the Train Wreck did indeed make me happy. Happy enough for me to start plotting the next one at my house. I've just gotta figure out when the wife's going to be away...


Still no golf or mistress hobby though.

You've taken up golf?

[SteveB]

I c what you did there!

[Ian]

Going to a good-sized meet sounds like a great way to make a happy Ian.

Especially if you're there.

UPDATE: Going to the Train Wreck did indeed make me happy. Happy enough for me to start plotting the next one at my house. I've just gotta figure out when the wife's going to be away...


Still no golf or mistress hobby though.

You've taken up golf?

Maybe I could do both. I'll never be in the same league as Tiger Woods with either of those things, but it's not too late to start.

[redunderthebed]

I've spent the last 6 years of my life on a subconscious level trying to kill myself. If i have enough brain cells to function dont have lung cancer and still can get out of my house without a crane when im midlife i think i'll be doing good.

Meh, the past was shit, the future is where its at and in the end I'm really looking forward to an infinite snooze.

Amen 2012 despite some really crappy things happening and some poor decisions on my part i'm on a journey of change and good things are coming out of it so this year hasn''t being too bad although i'm not mentioning that around mum i got my head bitten off.

But they're increasingly self-sufficient now, so it's time I got a real hobby.

Now I just need to pick one. A manly one:
http://artofmanliness.com/2010/01/06/45-manly-hobbies/
http://www.hobbiesformen.com/
http://www.findmeahobby.com/

I'm taking up pipe smoking and i like cigars so my hobby will be to be a connoiseur i used to do pipe smoking but that was for dope not tobacco.

Playing cards rules too if i come over i'll teach you how to play canasta.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mid-life is when you start realizing the opportunities for random sex with strangers are starting to get thin. Luckily for me, I was at Purdue then, and found that a certain subset of co-eds were really into older men.

[Kristie]

Going to a good-sized meet sounds like a great way to make a happy Ian.

Especially if you're there.

UPDATE: Going to the Train Wreck did indeed make me happy. Happy enough for me to start plotting the next one at my house. I've just gotta figure out when the wife's going to be away...


Still no golf or mistress hobby though.

You've taken up golf?

Maybe I could do both. I'll never be in the same league as Tiger Woods with either of those things, but it's not too late to start.

[John_fi_Skye]

I was in a career. It was like being a horse in the shafts, wearing blinkers. I stopped doing that a couple of years ago, and since then I've had some of the best experiences of my whole life. Some, but not all, because while I was doing my career I was also with the woman who was bearing my four children, and to paraphrase Gloucester there was good sport at their making. But yes - some great things have happened to me since I retired - all too late to be called a MID-life crisis. And they haven't felt like a crisis either; more like a climax. And I hope they go on for a year or two yet. And then...youth and asia, please.

[Svartalf]

Mid-life is when you start realizing the opportunities for random sex with strangers are starting to get thin. Luckily for me, I was at Purdue then, and found that a certain subset of co-eds were really into older men.

meaning mine started when I was 12 or so?


Bummer.