Are you in an Emerging Maturity Crisis?
I read that headline and thought, am I being asked what happens now that my Muni Bonds have come due and I won't know how, where or if, I should reinvest the money?
Actually, it's a new term for the old term, Midlife Crisis. At least according to Vivien Diller, Ph.d, in an article that she penned for Huffington Post.
I've never quite understood why it is necessary to give a stage/age a name, let alone rename it.
Diller suggests that until recently psychologists thought that we have an "aha" moment somewhere in our mid life. We become aware that life is passing us by. "I coulda, woulda, shoulda…" and didn't.
What I got from her article is that this 'aha' moment happens earlier and earlier.
Basically, because she makes a pretty good argument that we are all unhappy.
Bad marriage, rotten children, dead end job. Aware of this by the time you are 30. No wonder she calls it a crisis.
So I now understand why there is, for some, a reversal to adolescence.
Return to a happy time and relive the moment.
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Coincidentally, I happen to know Vivian from NYU Postdoc — took some classes with her just when I was eligible for my first “Mid-life” crisis (so Mid-life now lasts from 20-80, I think!!). She was, and probably still is, a very lovely, smart, beautiful woman who had been a professional ballet dancer and then went into psychology. Got a Huffington Post gig– good for her!!!