The End of the Midlife Crisis

It's very easy to define midlife: before it everything goes up, and after it – down. It has two dimensions, though: one being a decline of cognitive and physical abilities, but another is the expectations – you will probably not meet better people, watch better movies, read better books. There's only one Gravity Falls and The Three-Body Problem, guys. :) Chasing brighter impressions is dangerous, as it leads to drugs or high-adrenaline adventures, both being, in fact, running from yourself. So, passing the midlife crisis is about stopping running and accepting reality. Mistakes are hard to accept, but the good news is that now you (hopefully) have made enough of them to benefit from this experience and try to do everything right.

So what is this reality about, what's frightening us? This stuff is not necessarily negative, by the way. There's the deepest pool in the world, Deep Dive Dubai, and it has some inscriptions on the bottom for those who dive there. Metaphorically speaking, there are some bullet points at the bottom of the midlife crisis, and the end of the crisis doesn't happen without reading and accepting them. Thank God I had time to reflect on them, and thanks to my psychologist I had support and a baseline. So, here we go, without further comments and conclusions: