With a significant birthday on the horizon, I suddenly realize that I have more days behind me than in front of me. With that understanding came my midlife crisis.<\/p>\n
Crisis? What crisis? I am not being threatened with imminent death. I still have a roof over my head, food in my mouth, a daughter to love and friends to rejoice with. In fact, the struggle and stress of getting an education, a good job, raising children, paying a mortgage and saving for retirement is mostly resolved.
\nYet something still feels crisis-like. The assembly line of life is still running, My adrenalin is still rushing and I am ready to do more, but nothing substantive is coming down the conveyor.\u00a0 I am beginning to think that a mid-life crisis is really learning how to function without a imminent crisis. What does one do with their life in the absence of the struggle for survival?There are a couple of times in life when we are forced to redefine ourselves. This is one of them. And this part of the journey is going to be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With a significant birthday on the horizon, I suddenly realize that I have more days behind me than in front of me. With that understanding came my midlife crisis. Crisis? What crisis? I am not being threatened with imminent death. I still have a roof over my head, food in my mouth, a daughter to… Continue reading Crisis? What Crisis?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themoxiechronicles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}