Keeping Busy!!!

You know, 18 years old to 50 years old is a busy time of life. You've got to get yourself educated, you've got to start a career, you often are looking for a mate whether it be lifelong or temporary. Then some of us marry and settle somewhere. Maybe it’s a permanent place but most likely not. We move, buy a house, upgrade and move somewhere else. In between these moves and career changes, some of us find the time to even have children. Hopefully, our relationships survive all of this. If not, we break-up or divorce and eventually look for someone else. Meanwhile most of us are working and trying to get ahead. A few of us succeed, but for the many of us who don't, we just fade into the background as the successful get the attention of front-runners. And then wow you get hit with a mid-life crisis: I've done what I was told to do and I've got what I think I want and need...So why am I so unhappy?

So we visit therapists, we visit our clergy and it all comes down to this: Just get yourself a hobby, a creative outlet. You'll feel better. And voila, the existential angst goes away...for a while.And then you turn 50 and you're looking at retirement, medicare, social security, and death... All of a sudden everything just got real hard. And then you realize you’re going to need A LOT of good luck!