Mid-Life Crisis?

Mid-life crisis, me? Not really; not quite. It's funny though... I suppose it's happening to a few people around my age I know. And, not only that, I recently read a post from a blogger I'm following which detailed the little known phenomenon of a "Quarter-life crisis". I had no idea. I think a Quarter-life crisis is when you're young and fancy free and don't know what to do with your life. There are so many options you can't decide. A Mid-life crisis is reaching a point in your life where you realize you made all the wrong choices, but find it's too late to rectify them. You've run out of options and you're screwed. I suppose that makes dealing with your Quarter-life crisis in the best way possible that much more important. Or you'll spend the rest of your life regretting your prior decisions.

I know a couple of people who are living lives they consider unfulfilled. It's mostly related to relationships, or lack thereof. One is 43, a year old than me. At this point in his life he wishes he were married, living in a home he owned with little ones running around. Not an uncommon dream at all. Though, if you look at the flip side of it, you could be like one of the many others who've gone through the married with children phase and are now bitterly divorced. So, who's fulfilled now and who's not?

Do I regret any decisions I've made in the past? I don't think so. Are there things about my life I'd like to change? Or things I'd still like to do/accomplish? Yes, I believe so. But, they're minor things. Things I think would just enhance my life, not turn it on it's head. I would like to travel to more places... adventurous places like the Inca Trail in Peru for example. I would like to learn to ride a motorcycle, possibly. Though you have to weigh the risks involved with riding against the pleasure it would bring. I guess that's the practical side of me speaking. Would I like to be in a relationship myself? Sure, if the right person came along. But, that's a big if. There are many aspects of being single that are great. Number one being the freedom that comes along with it. You only have one schedule to follow - your own. Granted, it would be nice to have the company of a woman now and then. But, I just don't find I have a emptiness in my life without it. At least not yet anyway. It seems as if my mother is much more desperate for me to hook up than I am. I think she just wants to fit in with the rest of her friends whose children are all married.

Mid-life crisis, me? No, I can't say so.