You will die at 70! That’s what people who know me and those who think they know me started to predict when I hit 35. Those were not their exact words……..it was more like‘It’s midlife crisis!’ To me that meant I had reached the mid-point of my life and had only 35 more years to live. The statement was always said with a head nod from side to side and a “don’t worry, it will pass” comment. What will pass? My life? The reason for the comment was because I wanted to change my life, my profession, my fitness and learn to do new things I had never thought of trying before like riding a bike (for which I was completely out-voted by my family).
Obviously aware of the term, I decided to look into where it started and why? I find it intriguing how most people accept norms without actually questioning them and so armed with my most trusted oracle ‘Guru Google’ I set out on my quest to truly understand the origins of the term ‘Mid-life Crisis’.
What I found on Wikipedia was : A life crisis is defined as a period characterized by unstable mental and emotional health, altering the course of life of those affected by it. A mid-life crisis is experienced by some people as they realize they have reached a midpoint in their lifespan and experience conflicts or dissatisfaction within themselves because of unrealized goals, self-perceptions or physical changes as a result of aging or health issues.
My mind was blown. Was I having a mid-life crisis without even realizing it? Was my need to make major changes based on a condition where my mind was throwing subconscious unrealized dreams at me?
Without analyzing my condition any further, I embraced it whole heartedly and found that the need to change is constant but the willingness to change is not. Most of us think of doing several things throughout our lifetime like learning to speak a new language, learning salsa, travelling more, being less stressed about our weight, changing our jobs……but not everyone does any of it.
If Mid-life crisis means you don’t wait anymore to realize your dreams and just go for it, if it means you don’t let life get in the way of what you really want to do and if it means you become more important to yourself than other then I say we should live our whole lives with this condition!
Dreams, aspire, learn, try, fail, try somemore…….but never give up! Cheers to this wonderful condition and the freedom it gives u to just be U! What else could be more important than that?
A quote sent to me by a friend sums it up beautifully ‘We beg for candles without even knowing we can have the Sun! I hope what we ask for, is not all that we get’ – Meraaqi
Love
KK
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