Midlife Crisis

When we are young, we tend to follow people around us, and accept the social values as our own. We study at school, college, university, get a degree and qualification that is likely to give us stable income, social respect, position in the society, and everything that comes with it.

However, as we are approaching our midlife, we start to feel that something is still missing. Something more important than a successful career, our own house, and a fancy car. We start to feel that we want something more than what we have already accomplished.

We start to feel it, but not yet understand what is going on, because our modern society does not really teach us to understand, or even pay attention to our feelings. We only feel strange and unfamiliar emptiness, longing for something, being bored by what used to excite us only a few years ago, being lost in the multitude of choices. Often, these feelings do not even enter our conscious awareness, and we only notice secondary emotions that come off those feelings, such as fatigue, anger, or depression.

Most people start looking for something to avoid these unpleasant emotions, and often do not know where to look and what to ask for. They take refuge in buying fancy cars, drinking excessively, using drugs, or looking for new love affairs. Nothing of that, of course, makes their life any more meaningful or fulfilling.

In rare cases, such feelings may turn into physical diseases - skin problems, splitting headaches (migraines), and sometimes even fatal or nearly fatal diseases such as cancer or diabetes.

When a person has such symptoms, we say that he or she is in their midlife crisis.

What is actually going on? What midlife crisis really is?

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