First, as I hit the mid-stride of the afternoon of my 45th birthday, I have to note that I cannot remember spending any previous birthday shoveling snow.\u00a0 I’ve done a lot of different things on past St. Patrick’s Days.\u00a0 Some of them involved\u00a0drinking, some involved\u00a0being born, and some involved\u00a0drinking to sufficient excess\u00a0that I wished I hadn’t been (I’m looking at you, dear Ma’am), but none have involved shoveling.\u00a0 So, that’s a new thing.<\/p>\n
New is not the same as good.\u00a0 Get this winter over with.<\/p>\n
However, I think 45 should be more than just looking back, however fondly or blearily, at the years gone past.\u00a0\u00a0I’ve decided that I will not worry about all the things I have thus far failed to accomplish, all the almosts, all the maybes.\u00a0 I will not consider for one minute the fact that when John Keats was my age, he’d been dead 20 years.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I shall keep my eyes due north, face forward into the wind, and imagine what comes next.<\/p>\n
Based on statistics and actuarial tables, I can reasonably assume that I might live to 90, assuming a smooth downhill road and a good tailwind.\u00a0 That means that today marks my halfway point, my middle life.<\/p>\n
So, Dear Friend, Fond Relation, and Gentle Reader, I ask you for input:\u00a0 What’s a good crisis to have?\u00a0 I’m ready for my mid-life crisis, and I’m entertaining ideas!\u00a0 Bungee jumping?\u00a0 Skydiving?\u00a0 Fast cars?\u00a0 Loose women?\u00a0 Pot is now available legally in 2 states, and I’ve never had any – is that a decent option for a mid-life crisis?\u00a0 Recreational alcoholism is old hat; nothing new there to try.\u00a0 My understanding of how this works is that I realize my own mortality and then try to distract myself from same by spending inordinate amounts of time and\/or money on something I don’t usually do.\u00a0 Since there are thousands of things that I don’t usually do, the field is pretty open here.\u00a0\u00a0I want to keep the financial aspects of this crisis to a minimum, so please don’t suggest I start a Ferrari collection – unless you’re willing to donate the first one as a starter, in which case I’m all in.<\/p>\n
So, what should I do for my mid-life crisis?\u00a0 All comments welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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