Midlife crisis checklist
I found this midlife crisis checklist on the website for the Mirror (UK), and thought it was funny enough (and also quite pertinent) to share with you.
Check the list and see how many apply to you…
- Wanting a simpler life
- Still going to festivals like Glastonbury
- Looking up old boyfriends or girlfriends on Facebook
- Realising you’ll never pay off your mortgage
- Joining Twitter so your bosses think you “get” digital
- Reminiscing about your childhood a lot
- Taking no pleasure in friends’ success
- Buying a very expensive bicycle
- Suddenly wanting to learn a musical instrument
- Worrying over your thinning hair
- Taking up a new hobby
- Suddenly wanting to make the world a better place
- Looking longingly at old pictures of your younger self
- Fearing the worst if a parent calls at an unexpected time
- Going to reunions of favourite bands from the 70s and 80s
- Switching from Radio 2 to indie stations like 6 Music
- Revisiting holiday destinations you remember from childhood
- You cannot envisage a time when you will be able to afford to retire
- Reading obituaries and always checking how people died
- Obsessively comparing your looks with others the same age
- Dyeing your hair when it’s grey
- Stopping telling people your age
- Dreaming about quitting work but knowing you’ll never be able to afford to
- Taking vitamin pills
- Worrying about being worse off in your retirement than your parents
- Wanting to change friends but not meeting anyone new that you like
- Thinking about quitting work to buy a B&B or a pub
- Flirting with people 20 years younger
- Looking up your medical symptoms on the internet
- Thinking about going to church but never acting on it
- Always noting when politicians or bosses are younger than you
- Thinking of having a hair transplant or plastic surgery
- Taking out a direct debit to a charity
- Can’t sleep for work woes.
- Hangovers get worse and last more than a day
- You can’t help but compare your career success with your friends
- Worrying about a younger person taking your job
- Taking up an extreme sport
- You are very easily distracted
- You only read books on holiday
If your score was…
0-10 You are obviously too young to understand the question
11-20 Aren’t you a bit TOO relaxed about ageing? Don’t you know you’re going to DIE?
21-30 That’s more like it. Worried but not on the verge of hysteria
31-40 Calm down you crazy old loon. At this rate you’ll never remember why you went upstairs
On a more serious note…
On my website there is a more in-depth article on midlife crisis that you may want to read. As you will find in that article, midlife crisis isn’t just a joke. It’s an important stage of development in human life, and anyone who experiences a crisis around their mid life would be wise to consider seeking the advice and guidance from an experienced professional; contact me today!
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Be well, and enjoy being!
Kind regards,
Lars Andersson
