I’m going to make some vast generalizations here, but for many once you reach your thirties you’ve got a lot figured out. I think the reason it sneaks up on people is because by now you are really living the prime of your life. And surprise, now you have the third-life crisis in your thirties, and “What am I DOING with my life” (present). You have your forties-fifties and “What have I DONE with my life” (past). So you have your twenties and “What am I GOING to do with my life” (future). Whatever it is, I’m hoping that by identifying the root cause of the third-life crisis, perhaps I can avoid the mid-life, or at least minimize it. And it might just be the need to shake free from the monotony that’s taken over your life. Or perhaps you’re a recent empty-nester and you’re realizing you have to fill your time with something other than your kids, which forces you to analyze everything in your life that’s not your kids. It seems as if it starts when maybe people around you start passing away, causing you to question your own mortality. What I do know about it is from movies, books, co-workers, and friends. Somehow, you figure it out and transition into becoming an adult.Īdmittedly, I haven’t made it to my mid-life crisis yet so can’t speak from personal experience. You are still young, wanting to have fun and enjoy yourself, but the looming cloud of “what am I going to do with my life” is always hanging over you. Regardless, you are at a crossroads in life. Maybe you just got out of college, maybe you never even finished college, or maybe you never went at all. When you think about it, the quarter-life crisis and mid-life crisis make sense: The quarter-life hits sometime in your twenties (this was a rough one for me). But you never hear about the “middle child” of the crises, the third-life crisis. Since it’s not as broadly publicized, it will likely sneak up on you when you least suspect it ( affiliate link – seriously, nothing even pulls up about it in Amazon). If you had a rough patch at all in your twenties, you undoubtedly know about the quarter-life crisis. Every one’s heard of the mid-life crisis.
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