I am goiing through a middle aged crisis
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
December 28, 2011 10:29am CST
A middle age crisis is when people in their midlife look back on their entire life and are not satisfied with what they have accomplished. They may have accomplish noting, or a lot but it is not all that they wanted to accomplish.
The reason this happens in middle age is that the young have the time to go back and do the things they want or needed to do. When you are in your late 50's gong toward your senior years these opportunities to go back and do the things you want to do are no longer possible.
This is what I am feeling now. There are so many things I wanted to do and cannot do now. I feel what I did in the past was not enough. There are many missed opportunities and those doors are no longer open to me for various
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7 responses
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
29 Dec 11
Hi!
I have not reach that stage yet and I am scared to be there, but I know that I still have to go thorough that stage. I think the best things to avoid such a crisis is to do what you like when you are still young so that you won't feel regret. I like to learn new things and most of the time I will learn many things at once, and most of the time that make me only manage to learn most of them half way and I know a lot of things but not totally know everything about it. In order for me not to feel regret in the future, I will just do what I think I want to do, just like the Nike slogan : Just do it! 
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Dec 11
not everyone goes through this some people are totally happy with the way their life turned out.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
29 Dec 11
I'm so sorry.I never had any ambition Nor did I see myself doing anything past the age of 18.So everything after that is good. I wish I could say something to help . All I can say is if you ever need me , email me.
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@CelticSoulSister (1640)
• Southend-On-Sea, England
31 Dec 11
I feel exactly the same as you right now. The things I'm regretting not having done are those that I didn't want to do at the time, and I never thought I'd grow older to regret not having done them. How wrong I was! Too late to do them now though, so maybe it's time to move onto things more suited to my age-group...well, I'll move on when I'm ready. It's taking a long time to be ready though lol.
@mentalward (14690)
• United States
28 Dec 11
Life has a lot of twists and turns that we don't see coming. I've learned that one key to happiness is in our ability to adapt to life's changes. We need to make adjustments in our goals when life hands us something we just didn't see coming and is so life-altering that we NEED to change the way we do things.
Sometimes life throws things at us that make doors slam in our face but it's what we do after that determines whether we'll be happy or not. One door closes, we need to open other doors, doors we never even noticed being there before but have been there all along.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
28 Dec 11
not always I have made many adjustments and some people will tell me I am so resourceful and successful but still it is not what I had in plan for my life I wanted to do so much more.
@stanley777 (9401)
• Philippines
29 Dec 11
Yeah, most of us do experienced the same thing as what you are feeling now. How we wish we have used all the opportunities we have before to make it to good use or on our behalf.
All the answer get back to me. If I have only done that during my younger years maybe I would feel happier. During that time, I used to think that I could do it later coz' I'm still young. Later did I know, that having an attitude or manana habit is not good. So, I just hope that our youngster today would not experienced the same fate as ours.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Dec 11
mine was more of not having the opportunities I needed to do what I wanted to do. I made some bad choices but I worked hard and sacrificed a lot as well.
@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Dec 11
Well, ya know what my friend? Those missed opportunities ARE gone. BUT, tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. You can make new opportunities for yourself. Maybe not the same ones or as good of ones but you still have time to do some fun and different with your life.
