Some whining @ss white boys on here
Feel like slapping you Godfather style and yelling at you, “GROW UP AND ACT LIKE A MAN!”
No wonder you all carry your wife’s purses at Neimans
Some whining @ss white boys on here
Feel like slapping you Godfather style and yelling at you, “GROW UP AND ACT LIKE A MAN!”
No wonder you all carry your wife’s purses at Neimans
Swaglord wrote:
vivalarepublica wrote:
A mid-life crisis is just some made up BS for people that have lived their lives within a pre-determined, socially acceptable confines and never really ventured outside those guide lines or practiced healthy self reflection, awareness, and future planning. They also may have difficulty accepting the disappearance of their youth and associated feelings and the impending march of getting older. Then they finally acknowledge that growing itch to do something different or change up their life drastically or buy some ridiculous and expensive new toy before they lose the opportunity. They may or may not act on that itch, and their life may or may not undergo some serious upheaval.
What Semaphore is experiencing is the realization that he is no longer a young stallion with seemingly endless possibilities, and the perceived reality of the potential boredom, physical decline, repetitiveness, hopelessness, directionless, stagnation, and paralysis of the long slog of adulthood. There is comparison anxiety as others seem more accomplished, happier, richer, further along. Things no longer happen as you naturally progress through life, things now only happen as a result of your actions. Meaning, significance, purpose, status, advancement, and recognition are now things that you must grapple with, rather than the world determining it for you.
I don’t have a specific formula for addressing this type of personal crisis. The first thing you can do is examine what really eats at you more than anything else and re-arrange your mindset and habits to address those things. For Semaphore, I imagine it is relationships with women and other social relationships and career situation. Those are big things to address if they haven’t worked out in a satisfactory manner by your late 20s.
When you feel that itch to do something different with your life, scratch it and listen to what it says. It’s often a signal that you need to switch things up a bit.
Also, run (or practice whatever) more. That’s the answer to pretty much everything. We are mostly the products of our routines and mindsets.
Damn dude, spot on! So what's a guy to do when you work a comfortable corporate job making solid money but nothing nuts, living in NYC around all that hustle and bustle? Join the bustle, live the city life, and save up while keeping good habits? Then pull the trigger at some point and take the jump into the unknown once you've "hedged" a good amount? I have this desire to just jump off and put myself in uncomfortable situations as a slap in the face to wake up. The week in, week out is just making time fly too fast. And for me, "drinks" after work, a trip to the beach for a weekend, and one "big" (2 weeks) vacation a year isn't enough to allay the feeling of ennui.
I don’t know. I enough trouble keeping my life straight, let alone provide answers for others.
It’s about asking and answering questions of yourself. What do you want to do, rather than what you perceive that others expect you to do? How much do you worry about how your life compares to others? How much of a risk tolerance do you have? What type of lifestyle do you want?
Realize that the freedom to even consider these ideas is a privilege in itself. The daily struggle for others is much worse and more suffocating.
Hddjdjjdjd wrote:
Some whining @ss white boys on here
Feel like slapping you Godfather style and yelling at you, “GROW UP AND ACT LIKE A MAN!”
No wonder you all carry your wife’s purses at Neimans
what is your race?
John Utah wrote:
Hddjdjjdjd wrote:
Some whining @ss white boys on here
Feel like slapping you Godfather style and yelling at you, “GROW UP AND ACT LIKE A MAN!”
No wonder you all carry your wife’s purses at Neimans
what is your race?
Godfather race.
Good lord. Is your father in your life? I ask this only as a half joke because I cannot imagine anyone with a strong male figure in their life making such a ridiculous statement. You need your head slapped or @ss kicked. Maybe both.
Roach Cake wrote:
You gotta chase your dreams, don't let others decide your life.
What dreams are you chasing?
Semaphore Slim wrote:
I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20, but I look much older and uglier and my age (the number) is ticking up. I see how this creates an identity crisis for people.
It doesn`t have to be a midlife crisis. I am 58 and it feels I am on top of my life with all experience
and hopefully will "donat" one of the very best training systems in history to my afterworld of running. Cheers!
The Magic Coach
COACH J.S å ä ö wrote:
Semaphore Slim wrote:
I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20, but I look much older and uglier and my age (the number) is ticking up. I see how this creates an identity crisis for people.
It doesn`t have to be a midlife crisis. I am 58 and it feels I am on top of my life with all experience
and hopefully will "donat" one of the very best training systems in history to my afterworld of running. Cheers!
The Magic Coach
The trick to move on in good spirit, until end of this of your lifes, is to always set up new goals....
never surrender and catch the day..... and don`t ever think your happiness is in money ( as long you have enough to eat ,a home and can by some "extras"). Cheer up lads!
Not sure I ever had a MLC but definitely experienced many peaks and valleys. Having experienced the valleys has me loving life more than ever now. At 28, just forget it. It’s just a valley.
Disksjdhdb wrote:
Mid life crisis for milleniaks is 30 lol
In my day it was 40-45.
Lay off the muscle milk ryan hall
I'm 57. I'm not sure I've hit it yet.
120 baby. WooHoo:)
Semaphore Slim wrote:
I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20, but I look much older and uglier and my age (the number) is ticking up. I see how this creates an identity crisis for people.
I think you're a prime candidate, but still far away from a mid-life crisis. Rather, you're just growing up and not happy with what the entails.
vivalarepublica wrote:
A mid-life crisis is just some made up BS for people that have lived their lives within a pre-determined, socially acceptable confines and never really ventured outside those guide lines or practiced healthy self reflection, awareness, and future planning. They also may have difficulty accepting the disappearance of their youth and associated feelings and the impending march of getting older. Then they finally acknowledge that growing itch to do something different or change up their life drastically or buy some ridiculous and expensive new toy before they lose the opportunity. They may or may not act on that itch, and their life may or may not undergo some serious upheaval.
+2
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Realize that the freedom to even consider these ideas is a privilege in itself. The daily struggle for others is much worse and more suffocating.[/quote]
Fucking preach. Amen.
I got to 40 and realized there were a lot of women in the world and I still had time to sleep with a lot of them, and I got to work.
When Crete hits the fan wrote:
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My crisis came on my 31st birthday when I woke up in my bed living in my mother's house, realized I'd never get back together with the love of my life because of what we'd done to each other over the course of years, was aware that I hadn't had a real LTR in years, had zero prospects, my friends had all move/married/kidded and I had to leave for a job that I hated but paid very well - too well to leave. It was a combination of paralysis, depression and hopelessness.
There is a better term for this scenario than "mid-life crisis" -- its called "being a failure."
Always happy to help.
ps. If the so-called "love of your life" turns out to be your mother, then we have other terms for that.
Hddjdjjdjd wrote:
Some whining @ss white boys on here
Feel like slapping you Godfather style and yelling at you, “GROW UP AND ACT LIKE A MAN!”
No wonder you all carry your wife’s purses at Neimans
Not so fast, smart guy -- that's MY purse.
Just remember boys as bad as aging is for men it’s WORSE for women.
As pathetic as you may seem remember that you can always outspend baldness, being fat, etc and you damn well know women don’t have that option.
Semaphore Slim wrote:
I'm 28 and am experiencing a version of this idea. I'm much wiser and fitter than I was at 20, but I look much older and uglier and my age (the number) is ticking up. I see how this creates an identity crisis for people.
....but my biggest problems in regards to finding a mate is I am an autistic Trump worshiping midget. Please help me!
Dude you really are jamin, aren't you?
100m wrote:
Dude you really are jamin, aren't you?
He is.
He mentioned the fact in some long-deleted thread.
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