What is a mid-life crisis?

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Why do people often have a ‘mid-life crisis,’ and is it just a fancy way of saying they’ve hit a point where they finally realize they’ve been doing everything wrong?

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Have you ever gotten the “Sunday scaries” where on a Sunday you realize that the weekend is almost over, tomorrow you’ll have work (or school) again and you dread it? You may feel you need to make the absolute most out of the few hours of weekend that you have left.

A midlife crisis is kind of like that. You realize that you have a finite amount of time left in your life and then you panic and try to make the absolute most out of the time you have left. It doesn’t even have to be about fearing death, but simply realizing that the time for certain activities may be running out, like sports or really long traveling that just gets harder and harder as you get older.

It doesn’t mean they realize they did something wrong, it just means they think they need to “seize the day”, and may end up trying to cram a lot of experiences in a small amount of time before it’s too late.

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