Mid Life Crisis

Recently I was watching this movie called Groomsmen, this blog has nothing to do with the movie but a dialogue from the movie provoked me to write this blog. The dialogue is "You hit 35 and you think you got your head straight but your body starts giving away". I was chewing on this dialogue for quite sometime and then it really made sense to me.

We grow up in this world trying to achieve something of our own strengths. In the process, you build self esteem, confidence, make money, build relationships on and on. In this building and growing we come across numerous obstacles which we deal with whatever knowledge we have about the obstacle, learn from it and store it as an experience in our memory. Ok, now you are reaching 35 what happens to all the expereince and knowledge you have gained in the past years; we think we are ok now to deal with this world with more mature mind backed up by our experience.

Now you start heading into the world with a difference perspective but there comes another great obstacle the wear and tear of your body. We don't feel the energy we had earlier to enjoy the new dimension of our thoughts. Things that could raise our adrenaline is no more interesting because our experience jumps in to say "I know that it is nothing". At some point you really ask these questions "What have I achieved in this world? Is this what I wanted? Am I happy with the current situation?" There may be an yes, but I am sure there are so many of us that if we had a second chance to go back and do somethings differently we would defintely want to do that. Unfortunately life or time cannot be rewinded like a movie you rent from Block Buster or On Demand.

So to keep flowing with the tide we try to entangle ourselves with activities which keeps us busy and start new dreams of building the next generation obviously our kids.