AGING WELL
You May Have Made It Through a Mid-Life Crisis, But Your Late-Life Crisis is Going to Be a Bitch!
The problems and challenges that confused and worried us thirty years ago are no longer the issue.
Remember when the term Midlife Crisis was the most popular phrase in water cooler conversations?
It referred to the inevitable questions that emerge as we approach the mid-point of our lives: what purpose do I serve, and how do I find meaning in my life?
A midlife crisis was purported to be a time for introspection, for exploring the self — self-interests, self-motivations, and self-fulfillment. In short, it was a culturally-approved timeout to consider alternatives to our everyday routines — because we’d been there, done that, and it was no longer satisfying.
These revelations often led us to the conclusion that our current journey didn’t seem to be taking us anywhere, and if repeated for another thirty years, would produce the same disappointing results we were currently experiencing.
For many, it was a wake-up call.
As a result, the majority of self-respecting, enlightened forty-year-olds were either fully engaged in their own…
