Mid-Life Crisis

or at least, not to that extent

i have no idea but that loser got on my last nerve

there's a sort of contentedness that midwestern boomer dudes have that is very specific and singular. it's this sort of "I am the incumbent mayor of life" manner you get from certain types as they rumble around the streets of Schaumburg.

Ramble Tamble is the bomb

This shit just won't go away. When do I reach a point of wizened, content old age and cease to be a frustrated middle aged dude?

idk, when you find out, let us know plz

The main 'life lesson' that you learn as you get older is "you can't get one-up on life" - i.e. you don't ever arrive at a fixed position where you can say I now have a stable and content frame of mind from which now onwards I'll deal with life. Everything changes over time.

(/Aimless mode)

totally got one-upon life atm but I'm very wary of the other boot dropping any day now

I thought I was done with my midlife crisis two and a half years ago but noooooooooo. Same midlife, different crisis.

crisES, even

commiserating w/u, q!

i would say it's good to find a way to know yourself physically, via exercise, rest, yoga etc. bodily feelings aren't explained enough. if you are doing the same things looking for a change then maybe reconsider - ime you can't instantly change thoughts etc but you can really change your physical reaction to all these. also if problems seem quite deep you need to start very small to fix them.

realise this sounds faintly sci*ntologist but i am honestly trying to help.

200 dollars buys a higher plateau

my midlife challenge appears to be learning to give less of a fuck about the vast majority of things and more of a fuck about a few key things. Easier said than done, as it turns out.

The main 'life lesson' that you learn as you get older is "you can't get one-up on life" - i.e. you don't ever arrive at a fixed position where you can say I now have a stable and content frame of mind from which now onwards I'll deal with life. Everything changes over time.

This is OTM. All through my twenties I had some notion that I would finally arrive; that there'd be some point in my life where I'd have everything all worked out and there'd be some blissful karmic balance in everything I'd achieved in relation to where I'd be. But that's not how life works and in a way, I wouldn't want it to be.

i turn 50 in two months. What I find striking is just how ephemeral and elusive "life" - in whatever way you want to interpret it with whatever philosophical tools you prefer - actually is. You'll never have it all worked out because it's all a moving target. Stay static for too long and eventually you'll notice that the world around you will turn into something you're not used to.