Mid Life Crisis.

Hi there peterfrombournemouth Well in my experience from my father I would expect you to start listening to music louder than usual, drink more, change your wadrobe somewhat and probably buy a sports car of some discription, oh and I forgot, date someone almost half your age!!

I have not hit mine yet, I remember when my father went through his, is started trying to act cool and hip talking like the kids do and dressign diffrently. It only lasted a couple of months before he was over it, I don't know if everyone is like he was but that is about the just of his mid life crisis. I only hope when my time comes I don't do anything like that I would not want to look back on.

Based on my experience, it is a time around 40 that you realise you are nearer retirement than school and your working life is half done. You re-ebvaluate your goals and priorities that were set at school and consider whether there is any point in continuing down the path set 20 years earlier. Many people get very depressed about the fact that they will not play football for their favourite team or become prime minister or fly to the moon and have difficulty reining back their aspirations to more practical levels. Maybe they went to a school reunion and discovered all their old amtes doing better than them, maybe they found that they do not have any kids and everyone else does, maybe the kids have grown up and left home and 'empoty nest syndrome' sets in and you discover actually you have notihing in common with your aprtner now the kids have gone! You need to start from basics and reconsider what is improtant to you - family, friends, enjoyment, rather than pursuit of money. I did and reinvented myself and retrained as a solicitor. I now hope to change the world for the better by fighting discrimination and unfairness through examples collected over the years.