Some Thoughts on Happiness and Middle Age

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seo lace of AL 11:38PM May 02, 2010

IFEL LIKE SOMETHING IS MISSING IN MY LIFE IAM5 55 YEARS I FEL LIKE MY LIFE IS PASSING ME BY I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ANY MORE I NEED HELP ON WHAT TO NEXT KNOW CAN YOU GIVE ME SUGGESTIONS ON WHAT TO DO?

JANICE WILLIAMS of IL 3:16PM December 08, 2009

I'm 50, and have to agree with the saying.."your about as happy as you decide to be."...no matter what your age.

Joni Greenwell Bycroft of UT 2:48PM June 19, 2009

Deborah,

I'd like to share my wife's midlife story. Within two months she had EIGHT – that is not a misprint - major changes in her life:

- Her eldest daughter, Valerie, graduated from university.

- Then Valerie left for Southeast Asia and Australia for six months to explore the region and reunite with her boyfriend.

- Her youngest daughter, Andrea, finished junior college.

- Andrea soon left to study English on the west coast for five weeks.

- My wife took a sabbatical from her job as a librarian at the high school where she had been working for twelve years.

- She started working full time as a legal assistant with a lawyer.

- She celebrated the 25th anniversary of her arrival in a new country from Colombia.

- And perhaps most important, Jacqueline turned 50.

These eight changes, which may be interpreted as signs of her midlife crisis, really represented important transitions or emotional adaptations to change in her life. They marked the end of one phase of her family, career and inner life and the beginning of new relationships with her daughters and perhaps a new career. These changes provided opportunities to re-orient her life and re-define her emotional and psychological self.

So you see things do get better with age.

Frank Bonkowski. Ph.D. 4:17PM December 07, 2008