Talking with a civvy buddy last night, he suggested that I was having a mid life crisis and recommended that I look for the Mid Life Crisis forum. I'll look for that later.
Over here, MLC has particular negative and comedic connotations aong the lines of:
Mid Life crisis - grow your hair, dress too young, buy a motorbike and a guitar, date women much younger than yourself, get a repeat prescription for Viagra, leave your wife, desert your kids, jack in your job and then 6 months later wonder why your life has gone down the pan.
or maybe it's more like - is this as good as it gets? Shall i try something different? Shall i take a chance on life being different? shall i change?
So I don't know. My buddy is supportive that I have started to end my marriage, but critical in the way that I did it. his reading (and there may well be an element of truth here) is that I have wanted to make this change for 18 months or more (true) but that I wouldn't or couldn't do it without the emotional safety net of another woman. (Possible, but the emotional safety net has changed into something else.)
Interestingly I called him yesterday, while dissolving a nicotine lozenge under my tongue. Poor bloke was convinced I was off my tits until I moved the lozenge and stopped drawling and slurring my words. He was so upset he had to go and calm down and ring me back later.
So back to the UK Stereotype MLC. I bought my first motorbike when i was 22, but didn't get my first motorbike until I was 40. I don't dress younger than my years and I'm as bald as an egg. (Had long hair from being 16 to being 40 though). I can't get the V on repeat script and maybe don't really need it now, (having stopped smoking, drinking and lost a load of weight, things work much better than they ever used to anyway, plus that side isn't that important now - prefer closeness and intimacy and kissin and holding etc. than making the beast with two backs - am I going too far? - well it's written now, you don't have to read that bit.) me and the wife parted over 5 years ago and I've had no direct contact with my adult children for about the same time. I'm still working but the job isn't what it was and I'm now seriously considering early retirement and getting a job in a tool store or hardware store. Sure i'm dating a woman quite a bit younger than me in empirical age, but she's probably a damn sight more Mature then me.
So maybe i've been having a mid life crisis since I was 22. Or maybe it's late onset puberty?
the changes started when i was 50 - shall I change my life? shall i change what i do? shall i change? in other words when i stopped drinking. Is this as good as it gets comes and goes.
Hey ho, here we go. Back to work and let's see what the rest of the day brings. C'mon God, what you got in store for me today? Bring it on.
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It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you got. BB
Maybe ouqht to qive the quit smokinq a year, without any (more) major chanqes, like we do with drinkinq. The job miqht look better after you level off but your x probably won't.
-- Edited by StPeteDean on Monday 11th of April 2011 05:16:21 PM
just had my co levels measured. Last week 28 ppm same as a heavy smoker. Today 3 ppm. Same as a non smoker. I am powerless over nicotine but won't smoke ODAAT.
__________________
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you got. BB
Talking with a civvy buddy last night, he suggested that I was having a mid life crisis and recommended that I look for the Mid Life Crisis forum. I'll look for that later.
Over here, MLC has particular negative and comedic connotations aong the lines of:
Mid Life crisis - grow your hair, dress too young, buy a motorbike and a guitar, date women much younger than yourself, get a repeat prescription for Viagra, leave your wife, desert your kids, jack in your job and then 6 months later wonder why your life has gone down the pan.
or maybe it's more like - is this as good as it gets? Shall i try something different? Shall i take a chance on life being different? shall i change?
So I don't know. My buddy is supportive that I have started to end my marriage, but critical in the way that I did it. his reading (and there may well be an element of truth here) is that I have wanted to make this change for 18 months or more (true) but that I wouldn't or couldn't do it without the emotional safety net of another woman. (Possible, but the emotional safety net has changed into something else.)
Interestingly I called him yesterday, while dissolving a nicotine lozenge under my tongue. Poor bloke was convinced I was off my tits until I moved the lozenge and stopped drawling and slurring my words. He was so upset he had to go and calm down and ring me back later.
So back to the UK Stereotype MLC. I bought my first motorbike when i was 22, but didn't get my first motorbike until I was 40. I don't dress younger than my years and I'm as bald as an egg. (Had long hair from being 16 to being 40 though). I can't get the V on repeat script and maybe don't really need it now, (having stopped smoking, drinking and lost a load of weight, things work much better than they ever used to anyway, plus that side isn't that important now - prefer closeness and intimacy and kissin and holding etc. than making the beast with two backs - am I going too far? - well it's written now, you don't have to read that bit.) me and the wife parted over 5 years ago and I've had no direct contact with my adult children for about the same time. I'm still working but the job isn't what it was and I'm now seriously considering early retirement and getting a job in a tool store or hardware store. Sure i'm dating a woman quite a bit younger than me in empirical age, but she's probably a damn sight more Mature then me.
So maybe i've been having a mid life crisis since I was 22. Or maybe it's late onset puberty?
the changes started when i was 50 - shall I change my life? shall i change what i do? shall i change? in other words when i stopped drinking. Is this as good as it gets comes and goes.
Hey ho, here we go. Back to work and let's see what the rest of the day brings. C'mon God, what you got in store for me today? Bring it on.
If that's the case, I'll be experiencing a 'Mid Life Crisis' every day. Except for the hair thing...that's not coming back; unless I call hair club for men. God bless...
