Crisis in midlife a Myth

In a common person's middle aged life, they have settled upon what there profession and life may entail. Such people may find their quality of life lower than they expected, and face severe denial and worry. Car and house purchases might be lower than what they expected. People often plan for house purchasing, right out of college. Dreams are usual, and many people think about luxury cars or houses. When the final decision making process ensures, these people don't want to buy lower quality products, and it gives them less satisfaction. It isn't a myth, because individuals might have conceived their finances and future differently from what they have come to terms with. Crisis is common, even if it be for relationships or careers.

Hi Skmak and welcome to my lot. I don't think we should ever fear anything. Life is what you make of it! I am in my mid life and it never has ever worried me about life and what it does or don't have instored. I give my problems to The LORD and HE takes care of it for me. We should always live our lives to the fullest. I will never retire we have too much work to do to let it be done later. We work everyday to improve our lives to the best that we can.

The midlife crisis is a very real thing. Not everyone may go through it, but that doesn't make it a myth. A midlife crisis is when you reach what you always feared to be "old age" when you were younger. This could be 30, 40, or even 50 years old. At this time you realize that you're not young anymore and you feel a surge of nostalgia and regret for things you used to do in your younger years and make an attempt to reclaim those moments. Some people go totally crazy and try to relive their youth entirely, some people just take up an old hobby that they lost touch of through the years.

I think that midlife crisis has more to do with one's career than our personal lives.People in professions tend to compare themselves with their colleagues and college mates who are their age.When they see that some of their friends or classmates have earned more than them or have risen to good positions at work than them, there is a certain feeling that affects these people and they feel very depressed.This is what leads to midlife crisis.I think we should handle things maturely and should build the realization that everyone's career trajectory may not be the same and that some people may achieve or earn more than the others due to various factors out of your control.So better to lead a happy life by focusing on things you and your family enjoys.That will give true satisfaction.

i believe this is true. i have known few though who experience this midlife crisis.

Not sure if it is a myth or simply people have the need to make sudden changes. As some people reach an age where they feel they missed out on something and begin to make radical changes, causing others around to simply label it as a midlife crisis. Not knowing perhaps that the person wanted this change long ago, but perhaps was not daring or life did not allow for the changes until then.