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Thu 10 Dec, 2009 09:22 pm
'For Your Birthday: Free Pass For a Midlife Crisis'
Birthdays come and birthdays go
but now you're FORTY-EIGHT you know,
Time to have your midlife crisis,
(second childhood is the nicest)
If you want to tint your hair,
or buy a sportscar, we won't care,
So what, your waistline is expanding!
family is ...understanding,
Think and do the most outrageous
and don't worry -- it won't faze us,
use this, your very own free pass
to go hog-wild, wild to drain your glass,
midlife crisis can be fun
(but when it's done, it must be done
Oh! just remember, buy the way
this pass is valid for ONE DAY!
@ossobuco,
Oops! just noticed a typo in line 12 (typed 'wild' twice) but can't find an edit function to allow me to change it.
Thanks for the bravo osso. In the last few years I 've been (intermittently) writing poems for various family members on their birthdays.
Even a silly poem hurriedly written is appreciated when it's written FOR someone.
@jjorge,
Lovely, jjorge!
(I hope he likes it as much as I do!)
@jjorge,
If your brother chooses not to cash in his midlife crisis coupon, can he trade it in and get a year long unlimited movie pass at his local megaplex theater?
Msolga, Edgar, thanks for the kind words.
tsarstepan, sorry the coupon is not redeemable for such things as movies. :-)
@jjorge,
Still, its a very clever and thoughtful poem!
When I do the things I did when I was younger it's now called "midlife crisis". I call it just having fun!
@NickFun,
During my first stint at college in the mid 90's, I felt like I hit my midlife crisis... depressing considering that was in my 20's. How accurate of a gauge are these midlife crisises and should I expect to live to only 45 years old considering I had my midlife crisis rather early?
@tsarstepan,
I have always thought that midlife crisis begins when one first discerns the ticking of the clock of ones own mortality. One thinks, "there is still time, but no time to waste.
@jjorge,
I had a morbid twentysomething period.
@jjorge,
Yes. Before that, you knew you were going to die
one day, far away, eventually .... but
then, you absolutely know this in your gut, you
feel it.
@msolga,
If that's the case then I had my midlife crisis in my early teens. <<GULP>> I'd sometimes worry about waking up amidst a nuclear war. Thanks
President Reagan!
@tsarstepan,
But it's a
personal thing, tsar.
It has nothing to do with politics, or anything else at all on the planet.
You just
know it's all finite. Your days are numbered.
This knowledge, believe it or not, can actually be a positive force in people's lives. Or they can ditch the wife, buy a red sports car, imagininging that this will hold the inevitable at bay.
But I am in no way poo-pooing your feelings in your early teens. I'm sure they were real. Than is an understood
earlier time of crisis. (And I know it was very real for me, definitely!)
@msolga,
When I had my mid life crisis, it ended badly. So I had to make a redo now that Im in my very latest of 50's. Ive taken up Salsa Dancing.
@farmerman,
Far worse things could happen!
@farmerman,
That's GREAT farmerman! Andele!
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