Conference back40::soapbox

    
    They are probably a rite of passage, and as such they
    just happen and cannot be characterized by good or
    bad. 
    
    Most definitely real for some. Others may have so much
    crisis that the MLC is lost in the noise.
    
    Probably the only ideal one has some good resolution 
    at the other end.

    
    I think they are real, but not everyone has one.  Also, I don't think
    they happen to everyone at the same age.  They also can be either 
    good or bad dependent on how we respond to it.
    
    For me it was a good experience.  When I turned 40, it finally sank in
    that time was precious.  Guess the less you have of something the more
    precious it is.  Anyway, I began to reduce wasting time on less
    important things in life.  I also began taking better care of myself
    in the hope I'd last a bit longer, and be as active as long as I can
    be.  (Essentially, I quit smoking, began jogging, and joined a gym).
    I'm glad to say, more than 2 years later, I'm in better shape than
    I've been since a teenager, and I'm living a much fuller life.
    I'm also much happier.
    
    al
    

    I figger when I get ta be forty, I'll quit ridin, get fat, join a bar
    and quit wasting my time working.

    What's a mid life crises? 
    Here I am 58 and waiting
    
    joan

    -1 nope Joan, that sounds about perfect...
    
       (good suck-up, eh?) :-)
    
       Chip

    Any midlife crises (for men anyway) should include a new vehicle
    preferrably red with, oh, let's say 400+ hp under the hood.  Automatic
    transmission is not an option.  Adorn the passenger seat anyway you see 
    fit.  Sorry Dr. Dan (if you're listening) you missed by about 185 hp.
    but give yourself extra point for the rag top.
    
    Brian

    -1 and don't forget the kick-*ss stereo!!!
    
       Chip

    ....belting out "My Way"

    >...belting out "My Way"
    
     Eew!

| <<< Note 381.4 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Special Fan Club Baloney" >>>

| Not me. I will gain 200 pounds and then loose it all with a bout of bulimia.

	Or you could just lose one of your personalities.... :-)

    Not me. I will gain 200 pounds and then lose it all with a bout of
    bulimia.

	Mark, it could have been worse..... he could have said belting out,
"You light up my life"! :-)

    Trade in the pocket protector, wingtips, and horn rims for a nice silk 
    or silkette shirt, unbuttoned a bit, and a medallion, maybe a Mr. T 
    starter set even, and some double knit Sans-a-belts, and those gradient 
    tinted sunglasses too, and lessee maybe a Kangol cap in white, and a 
    bracelet, maybe even a pinky ring.  Now that's stylin'.
    
    Brian 

    for my dad, it was taking up downhill skiing at the young age of 50.
    
    My mom bought a convertable that same year.
    
    meg
    
    

    <shudder>

    Skiing at 50?  Great!  Too many folks believe that you have to be under
    12 to start.  It's a great sport that can be taken up with a little bit
    of athletic ability and you can get good enough to enjoy it, quickly.  
    
    Brian
    
    

 I worked at a company years ago where our branch manager went through a
 MLC..when I started there he was a real nerdy type guy..crew cut, white
 shirt (back when colored shirts were the thing) station wagon, etc.  Then
 all of a sudden his hair got long, he grew a beard and bought a Porsche 911
 (yowza!) and started associating with us peons.  One evening after an 
 after work wateringhole gathering he had to take his secretary to the airport
 as she was going to Hawaii..next day we had a phonecall from him and he was
 also in Hawaii..decided what the heck, bought a ticket and off he went..his
 wife left him, then the reconciled..last I heard of him was at a company 
 picnic..I'd left the company by then, but had been invited to a company picnic
 by my ex boss.  The guy was driving a boat full of liquored up folks (he
 was also rather inebriated) around the lake and the boat flipped seriously
 injuring several people.  Not sure what happened after that, but I know
 the company went out of business :-/



 Jim

    re:     <<< Note 381.14 by CSC32::M_EVANS "proud counter-culture
    McGovernik" >>>
    
    >for my dad, it was taking up downhill skiing at the young age of 50.
    
    >My mom bought a convertable that same year.
    
    I run my first marathon Monday (at 42)
    

    
    
    I've decided that I'm not going to have
    a mid-life crisis.  I've learned to 
    recognize the difference between problems
    and life's little inconveniences.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    .19
    
    > I've decided that I'm not going to have
    > a mid-life crisis.
    
    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  That's like deciding that you're not going to get hit
    by a bus - but forgetting to tell the bus.

    
    
    :*)  Very funny Binder.
    
    No really, I think that mid-life crisis is a state of
    mind, and the highway that goes that way is not on my
    map.
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    	re: .21

    	this from the woman who told me she's going to have endless
    anniversaries of her 29th b-day.....:)

    .21
    
    Seriously, Terrie, if you're going to have a midlife crisis, you'll
    have one whether you want to, or plan to, or decide to, or not.  I was
    positive I wasn't going to have one - secure in myself and in my place
    in life and in my age and prospects, the whole bit.  And I found after
    I'd had my midlife crise that that was what it was.

 .23



 Agree with that..by the time I realized I had one, I was divorced and in
 a relationship I should never have been in..




Jim

    
    re: .23
    
    So Dick...
    
    How many horsepower did it have???
    
     :) :)
    

    Given that he drives a CRX, one supposes his midlife crisis may have
    taken on a different form.

    Mid-life crisis, it seems to me, are something like puberty. Maybe
    not as severe, but certainly not something one "chooses". They
    are a part of the physical and emotional process of aging, nothing
    more, nothing less. Not quite like waking up one day and
    discovering you have fuzz on your wee wee, but close...

    -b

    
    I believe that male mid-life crisis exists.  It seems to be unique to
    our modern culture where self is god and the prevailing attitude is
    that this life is all there is.  *It is* despairing to see oneself age
    and to realize that youth is gone forever (has been gone for some time
    by the time of middle-age), that outrageous fortune is not
    forthcoming, that the wife too is showing her experience, and that my
    earthly life is half over actuarially.  Death looms and the secular man
    can hide no longer behind a false confidence.  So, like many of us when
    faced with an inescapable decision, he gropes one more time, but with
    pinache, throwing it all to the wind in the hope that he actually can
    suppress the truth.  It doesn't last long and then he's really
    old...and sorry but not often repentent.
    
    jeff

    
    .18
    
    Tell us what you look like, and we'll all cheer you on from the
    sidelines or our tv sets, whichever we choose 8^).

    
    re: 381.29
    
    Thanks, 
    
    I'll be the one in the blue shorts :<{)
    
    al
    

    
    <-- good thing I've got a colour telly 8^).

    
    hi mz_debra!!! Happy Easter to you

    
    Hi Mark!  Happy bunnyday.

    
    
    	I have a sudden urge to go out and buy a GSXR-1100....
    
    
    

    .28
    
    i have a sudden urge to regurgitate
    
    ric