What now?
I am wondering if this is it ???
Has everything I’ve worked towards come to an end?
In general terms, you start your teens dreaming of being someone’s girlfriend, getting into the workforce and having a wonderful grown up life.
Then during your 20′s you explore your life through working, partying, being in and out of love, spending money, looking for Mr Right etc.
Then you hit your 30′s and your working, in love/planning to marry/ married to ‘Mr Right’, making a home together and planning/enjoying being a parent.
Then what?
What comes next?
Of course you watch your family grow, and enjoy and grow old with your significant half………..but WHAT ELSE????
Just wait to grow old?
I worked towards all of this for so long I forgot to think about what comes AFTER all of the above.
And I then wonder ……..am the only one to feel this way?
Does feeling like this mean I’m having a mid-life crisis?
What the hell does mid -life crisis really mean?
This is what Wikipedia tells me (well the abbreviated version) :
Used to describe a period of dramatic self-doubt that is felt by some individuals in the “middle years” or middle age of life, as a result of sensing the passing of their own youth and the imminence of their old age.
The result may be a desire to make significant changes in core aspects of day-to-day life or situation, such as in career, work-life balance, marriage, romantic relationships, big-ticket expenditures, or physical appearance.
Well that’s great.
If I go by Wiki, I’m having a midlife crisis.
Excellent.
Crap.
I want to get off this merry-go-round of procrastination and jump of and start planning my next two decades!!
August 12th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Oh I know how you feel!I did hear the other day that thirties are the new twenties. I am working on a few ideas for myself – now the madam is closing in on school it looks like I might have to rejoin the grownup world!