The Mid-Life Crisis

According to Hilary Charlesworth who wrote The Mid-Life Crisis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights talks about how people usually hit the mid-life Crisis age in their fifties, but now the age is dropping even younger, and is sometimes occurring in people as young as age 40. A mid-life crisis is something that really can affect anyone. It happens when you look back at your life and you look forward and you start to wonder if you are on the right path, or you start to realized how short life is and that you have so much that you want to accomplish before you die. You may feel that you are running out of time or you may start to feel anxious or depressed about your current state of living.  Think about it, how you define yourself right now. If you are not happy with where you are in your life right now, what things do you want to change? Most people struggle with this and it can be overwhelming and can leave you feeling like you are suddenly out of control of your own life.

Elaine Wethington, the author of Expecting Stress: Americans and the “Midlife Crisis” refers to this time as a transition. It is often when big decisions are made and goals are re-visited. Think about it this way, let’s say that your whole life, all you wanted to do was to be a writer and to publish a fiction novel. Let’s say that you are now looking back at your life and noticing that you never even finished a book let alone published that novel. Instead you’ve been working at a job that you’re not excited about, and you’ve been focusing on other things like family in your spare time. Now it’s time to re-evaluate your goals. Figure out what would truly make you happy and make some changes in your life so that you can get to where you want to be. It’s never too late to do what you have always wanted to do. It’s time to make it happen!