Midlife Crisis...Does it really exist?

MaxShrek wrote:

I f*cking hate ear hair. I f*cking f*cking hate ear hair. The ones I get grow about 2 1/2 inches overnight, and grow by themselves. f*cking hair, f*cking sh*t f*ck.

*edit I feel like I should paint myself green, talk backwards, and give sage advice to whiney Jedi padooin sh*tters.

Well, your handle is based on the guy who played Nosferatu.

Patches on the side with nothing between for me.

Edwin wrote:

Patches on the side with nothing between for me.

Did we used to have goddamned wings at some point? That's the only logical explanation I have for that odd.. grouping.

I'm of the belief that those that do experience a mid life crisis are ones who put high importance on those things that can change with age and generally in a negative way. Your looks, the crowd you run with, being well known ... these things change with time and so for those who think these things important it becomes a very traumatic experience. I am aging gracefully, anti-social, and like to remain behind the scenes so I don't think I am going to have a problem.
I think there is a difference though in that some people just get to enjoy certain things later on in life because they can now afford to. I think I may be one of those and it certainly isn't a crisis.

Swat wrote:

Back on topic though, does anyone else have abnormal back hair? Like on the top, big patches on the side, but none in the middle? You'd think we'd be designed with a more fuller coverage at least!

No comment.

I've experienced something similar, but I think in my case its just as much about lifestyle change than age. I went from the college 'rock n' roll' lifestyle (bartending in a popular college bar, women, partying...) to a very sedate 40 hour a week career/family life. One day I pretty much said enough and flipped a switch. While I've never regretted that decision I do sometimes miss the excitement/adventure of my previous life. These feelings usually don't last that long as I realize that I barely made it out alive the first time.

Swat wrote:
Dr.Ghastly wrote:
Hemidal wrote:
RichyRambo wrote:

You mean like when you lay in bed at night unable to sleep, fearing when you are going die and realizing that you really haven't done anything with your life to improve the world around you?

Nope, we call that Sunday. It's just the fear of the work week approaching.

Exactly.

Thanks, I've been trying to peg down that horrible, nauseating feeling I get about mid-afternoon every Sunday.

I'd get a Tattoo or something, but i have this really weird aversion to doing so. I don't like to follow the crowd, so by getting a tattoo, I'd feel like I've conformed to every other person born between 1976 and 1990. It's kind of ironic when not getting a tatoo is more of a non-conformist statement!

Ah who am I kidding. I'll probably get Mario on my ass cheek or something.

We should all get a 'GWJ 4 LIFE' tattoos somewhere (preferably not on the ass cheeks though).

BabaGanoush wrote:

I've experienced something similar, but I think in my case its just as much about lifestyle change than age. I went from the college 'rock n' roll' lifestyle (bartending in a popular college bar, women, partying...) to a very sedate 40 hour a week career/family life. One day I pretty much said enough and flipped a switch. While I've never regretted that decision I do sometimes miss the excitement/adventure of my previous life. These feelings usually don't last that long as I realize that I barely made it out alive the first time. :P

theres a switch? Ive just been drinking alone in the garage occasionally yelling "ROCKSTAR BABY!" and throwin the horns

pol wrote:
BabaGanoush wrote:

I've experienced something similar, but I think in my case its just as much about lifestyle change than age. I went from the college 'rock n' roll' lifestyle (bartending in a popular college bar, women, partying...) to a very sedate 40 hour a week career/family life. One day I pretty much said enough and flipped a switch. While I've never regretted that decision I do sometimes miss the excitement/adventure of my previous life. These feelings usually don't last that long as I realize that I barely made it out alive the first time. :P

theres a switch? Ive just been drinking alone in the garage occasionally yelling "ROCKSTAR BABY!" and throwin the horns

There is indeed a switch, but be warned. The first 3 weeks after flipping it you lay in a fetal position and shake, and sometimes poop yourself.

BabaGanoush wrote:
pol wrote:
BabaGanoush wrote:

I've experienced something similar, but I think in my case its just as much about lifestyle change than age. I went from the college 'rock n' roll' lifestyle (bartending in a popular college bar, women, partying...) to a very sedate 40 hour a week career/family life. One day I pretty much said enough and flipped a switch. While I've never regretted that decision I do sometimes miss the excitement/adventure of my previous life. These feelings usually don't last that long as I realize that I barely made it out alive the first time. :P

theres a switch? Ive just been drinking alone in the garage occasionally yelling "ROCKSTAR BABY!" and throwin the horns

There is indeed a switch, but be warned. The first 3 weeks after flipping it you lay in a fetal position and shake, and sometimes poop yourself.

Shoot... I thought that is what happened after a real crazy night of partying.

I turned 30 in October, and the whole thing didn't phase me. I guess for me, since I'm still just a big kid at heart, none of this getting older crap phases me. I love my wife, job, home and life. I don't think I would trade any of it in. Well, maybe a game that I'm done playing, but other then that. One thing that I have learned being a geek means is that I am living in an extended childhood. I don't really think I'm ever going to grow up and worry about getting older.
I do hate the ear hair though, especially when we are out and my wife says something like "Remind me to trim your ears tomorrow." Then I'm all self conscious about it. But, what bugs me more then ear hair? Nose hair. Those things are so annoying. I am very OCD about trimming them.

I turned 30 in June. My situation is exactly the same as yours except we are engaged, not yet married.

Though I don't think of my stray hairs too often. I trim them when I cut my nails.

I turn 30 in May. (Actually, my wife tells me we're swapping birthdays so I'll turn 30 in January, and she'll take my birthday and turn 30 in May.) Two days ago was the first time it really freaked me out. I'm not an 'adult' in the way that I think of the word, and I like the way I am. I don't terribly /want/ to change, but I sorta feel like I'm supposed to. And then I feel weird either because I haven't or because I might or because I don't know what else would happen to cause the change. Truthfully, it's pretty f*cked up.

I have a feeling I'll get to 31 and not quite remember what had me spazzing at this point, but right now it's surprisingly stressful, when I stop to think about it - and nothing stresses me out.

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I'm very amused that

Swat wrote:

does anyone else have abnormal back hair? Like on the top, big patches on the side, but none in the middle? You'd think we'd be designed with a more fuller coverage at least!

is considered back on topic.

For the record, I've had freakishly out of control eyebrows hairs for years, a couple of mutant hairs on the tops of my shoulders (but none on my back), and single white patch in my hair about the size of a nailhead (but no white anywhere else).

I'm nearly 30, but almost completely hairless (not on my head, yet.) You couldn't see hair on my chest if I was gleaming in the sun like a well polished car and you were trying to see your reflection in my golden bronzed perfection.

Dr.Ghastly wrote:

I'm nearly 30, but almost completely hairless (not on my head, yet.) You couldn't see hair on my chest if I was gleaming in the sun like a well polished car and you were trying to see your reflection in my golden bronzed perfection.

SPARTAAAAN!

Dr.Ghastly wrote:

I'm nearly 30, but almost completely hairless (not on my head, yet.) You couldn't see hair on my chest if I was gleaming in the sun like a well polished car and you were trying to see your reflection in my golden bronzed perfection.

Not quite golden, but we get the idea.

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Hemidal wrote:
Dr.Ghastly wrote:

I'm nearly 30, but almost completely hairless (not on my head, yet.) You couldn't see hair on my chest if I was gleaming in the sun like a well polished car and you were trying to see your reflection in my golden bronzed perfection.

Not quite golden, but we get the idea.

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Whoa! nice Aardvark.

Edwin wrote:

Patches on the side with nothing between for me.

Same here, Swat. I wonder if there's a specific nationality or line of genes that encourages it.

The stuff at the top is neck hair gone bad, so I don't count it as back.

I'm also in on the ear and nose hair thing.

I also have a few mutant eyebrows. It freaks my girlfriend out. I just tell her that I'll eventually morph into this guy. I bet he gets ALL the old ladies.

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All the men in Zero's family have the crazy eyebrows. He and I are hoping his don't get that out of control in the future.

lunabean wrote:

All the men in Zero's family have the crazy eyebrows. He and I are hoping his don't get that out of control in the future.

Is he prepared for the eyebrow trimming?

SirRockford wrote:
lunabean wrote:

All the men in Zero's family have the crazy eyebrows. He and I are hoping his don't get that out of control in the future.

Is he prepared for the eyebrow trimming?

I'm not sure, but I am prepared to do it for him.

lunabean wrote:
SirRockford wrote:
lunabean wrote:

All the men in Zero's family have the crazy eyebrows. He and I are hoping his don't get that out of control in the future.

Is he prepared for the eyebrow trimming?

I'm not sure, but I am prepared to do it for him. :D

See, that's good, my wife also is prepared for trimming unsightly hair, i.e. ear hair. Heck, a couple of times she's tried to trim my nose hair, just for fun, but she doesn't quite get it right. Luckily I have no back hair, but still a full head of hair on top.

*Edit*
Woohoo, I just noticed I made it to Junior Executive.

You old farts make me happy to be young and virile

Swat wrote:

I also have a few mutant eyebrows. It freaks my girlfriend out. I just tell her that I'll eventually morph into this guy. I bet he gets ALL the old ladies.

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That's awesome. I bet he doesn't even have to shield his eyes from the sun.

As for ear hair, I'm gonna grow mine and shape it so I have super hearing!

Ah well. It's fun pretending it's fun to get old.

MaxShrek wrote:

I f*cking hate ear hair. I f*cking f*cking hate ear hair. The ones I get grow about 2 1/2 inches overnight, and grow by themselves. f*cking hair, f*cking sh*t f*ck.

*edit I feel like I should paint myself green, talk backwards, and give sage advice to whiney Jedi padooin sh*tters.

Oh man I thought that was just me! Why the hell do I have ear hair now?! I find it's grown to a point that it's really noticeable, I take care of it, and two days later it's worse then it was earlier!!! ARRGGHHH!!!

lunabean wrote:

All the men in Zero's family have the crazy eyebrows. He and I are hoping his don't get that out of control in the future.

I don't have the crazy eyebrows, but my right eyebrow seems to be perpetually arched. I look like I'm in a constant state of puzzlement.

That's another weird thing about getting old, I notice weird things about my appearance more than I used to and they'll REALLY bother me now, to the point of self consciousness and I'm positive that everybody else can see these flaws.

Funkenpants wrote:

No, that's something different from a midlife crisis. When are you young whippersnappers going to understand that each age carries its own peculiar form of ennui or agony? Life is suffering. If God didn't want you to suffer, He wouldn't have invented tequila to ease the pain. Or the women to cause it.

As one medieval song puts it:

It's woman that makes me love
And love that makes me mad
It's madness that makes me drink
And drinking that makes me sad

Funkenpants wrote:
kellmeister wrote:

Anyone else gone through midlife chaos and lived to tell about it? I always thought it was bunk but now I'm starting to wonder.

I think you're too young to be going through a mid-life crisis. What you have is the garden variety desire to get laid.

Quoted for the motherf*ckin' truth.

I don't want to grow up... I'm a Toys-R-Us kid...

It's woman that makes me love
And love that makes me mad
It's madness that makes me drink
And drinking that makes me sad

That's why you decided you forgo the women's love altogether?