New Midlife Crisis Series on Radio National

Midlife Matters is a new series that started on Monday on Radio National. I listened from this page, and found it very good. My husband heard it on the radio this morning. Even if you don't live in this country you could listen when it is posted to the website.

You may also be interested in an article called Midlife Crisis Hoons.

It is too hot to articulate how I feel about midlife today, since it is quite hot here. The basics of the show are:

1. midlife transition 35-50
2. first half of life and second half of life
3. transition 7-10 years
4. first half outer world for how we should be and live, socialised
5. who we truly are
6. some chose not to chose to have a transition
7. conditioning corrected
8. things that have been repressed come up
9. we don't know what the future will be
10. the whole thing is normal
11. take a little time each day to think

They will be going into detail in the following weeks on Monday.

Here is another article I found earlier that suggests it is like a second adolescence. This is the second time I have read that article and I am getting more out of it each time.

"Believe me, many times what seems right turns out wrong and what seems wrong turns out right. That’s why you are having a crisis, as triggered by an instinctive call to re-evaluate."

Basically I got from it all, if you didn't really muck up during your teens, you will be tested again, and it would be a shame to muck it up the second time.