Midlife Doesn’t Have to Be a Crisis
once you’re no longer burdened by such an unrealistic definition of a ‘life well spent’, you’re freed to consider the possibility that a far wider variety of things might qualify as meaningful ways to use your finite time. You’re freed, too, to consider the possibility that many of the things you’re already doing with it are more meaningful than yo
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Let me make a strange argument: more people should have a midlife crisis. Declining happiness might be a natural phenomenon that you can’t ‘cure’ but it can also be the inspiration to change.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
It’s a midlife crisis, no doubt, but it’s not born out of restlessness or a rosy remembrance of things past; it’s panic that this is as good as it’s going to get and what lies ahead could be worse.
Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis
It made us wonder whether approaching any major landmark in aging—not just midlife—might create existential friction.