Don’t lament>invent.
Don’t be obsolete >innovate.
Don’t decline>be sublime
Don’t crisis>fight it
Dear people,
I’m happy to announce that my recently appointed co-director, Phoebe O’Doubter, has founded through her own initiative: The Institute of Mid-Life Crisis’
She remarked that the wellbeing of babies, school-aged children, teenagers and the very old, is frequently the subject of study, research, recommendations, literature and subsidies.
Whilst this is all well and good Phoebe surmised, with some dismay, that the particular phase of life that many of us are, will or have already traversed: that middling grey area where the future appears to be approaching at such a rapid pace that it is almost behind us; where we fear that we can no longer become because we already have been, where we feel we are perhaps repeating ourselves but just can’t quite remember…This phase of life during which some days we wonder if our place is not in the container park along with the VHS cassettes, the big bottomed TVs and the outsized ghetto-blasters, the only difference between them and us being that we don’t have much hope of being recycled into something useful. In short, it is the period where we are prone to fall victim of a mid-life crisis.
In the Institute of Mid-Life Crisis, Phoebe has decided to address, or in fact, redress, the numerous problems of those of us going through the commonly called mid-life crisis. We open up a space where a more positive truth can be revealed about this transitional phase and, more crucially, a platform that can help us and others understand that it is IN FACT a period that overflows with FUN and CREATIVITY.
Let us explain: The Mid-lifer is, in fact, an adolescent in disguise. Some of us are free to shed the (albeit beloved) shackles of parenthood, others the illusions of career advancement. In the best case, both these constrictions of the 20s, 30s and early 40s can be cast aside and replaced by new previously suppressed freewheeling urges: moan, berate, take a stance, stimulate and ultimately…create. But where are our vehicles of true expression? We can take the more conventional routes: join a choir, a yoga or pilates class, start a cottage garden or sign up for metic, yet we know we have more to offer.
Here is your space to post what you will…