Midlife Crisis

A lot of people go through this mythical phase. It's when you are down and unhappy with yourself compounded by everyone and everything around you. It's that fun time when you can rant about anything under the sun and your friends would just nod and be supportive of you.

When does this happen? Mid-life means at the middle of your life. How long is your life? How do you know if the time is appropriate for a crisis? If I live until 60, then I should have had my midlife crisis in my thirties... and so on.

When a person's life plateaus, I guess this is the time to have a crisis. Define plateau. Your career is stable and is moving at a slower pace compared to when you were zooming up the corporate ladder years ago. Your marital life is quiet and has elevated to the companionship level or once-a-fortnight sex. Your children are in the weird teenage years when they have their own weird world. Your friends are busy with their inane-sounding hobbies like cross-stitching or Mafia Wars. That is a plateau.

If you're not married, this time can be reaaaalllly difficult.

What can be done during this stage in life?

Get a pet snake, if your name is Ruth.