Midlife crisis.

[abu13]

I am sure i'm starting to have one and not in a good way, I always imagined that it meant buying a motorbike and chasing after some tarty 20 year old. but i have been thinking about the recently as i have noticed that as well as myself a number of people who i have grown up with are going through a really rough time at the moment and none of us appear to pin it down to any specific reason.

It seems to me that there comes a point where you just become completely disillusioned with everything, I am sick of seeing people struggle to get through. How did we get to the point where food banks became acceptable? Pensions are worth fuck all and there are going to be thousands of us who are going to live our final years in poverty. Kids can't get a job let alone a house and even if they do the prices are just disgusting.

I seriously worry for my kids and grandkid's and fear for the world they are going to grow up in, I just feel depressed whenever i think about the future, what worries me is that I consider myself to be one of the fortunate ones, I have a house that is more or less paid for, i have a decent income and a pension. I can afford to go on holiday each year and have savings to see me through for a number of months should things suddenly go tits up.

I think you just hit a certain age where you realise that life in general is shit and that it is a struggle to get through day to day. I have stopped watching the news now as I can't stomach what is happening around the world especially each day in Syria, I feel like my whole perspective on life has changed over the last 12 months.

Anyone else gone through the same.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I am sure i'm starting to have one and not in a good way, I always imagined that it meant buying a motorbike and chasing after some tarty 20 year old. but i have been thinking about the recently as i have noticed that as well as myself a number of people who i have grown up with are going through a really rough time at the moment and none of us appear to pin it down to any specific reason.

It seems to me that there comes a point where you just become completely disillusioned with everything, I am sick of seeing people struggle to get through. How did we get to the point where food banks became acceptable? Pensions are worth fuck all and there are going to be thousands of us who are going to live our final years in poverty. Kids can't get a job let alone a house and even if they do the prices are just disgusting.

I seriously worry for my kids and grandkid's and fear for the world they are going to grow up in, I just feel depressed whenever i think about the future, what worries me is that I consider myself to be one of the fortunate ones, I have a house that is more or less paid for, i have a decent income and a pension. I can afford to go on holiday each year and have savings to see me through for a number of months should things suddenly go tits up.

I think you just hit a certain age where you realise that life in general is shit and that it is a struggle to get through day to day. I have stopped watching the news now as I can't stomach what is happening around the world especially each day in Syria, I feel like my whole perspective on life has changed over the last 12 months.

Anyone else gone through the same.

You need to go on holiday by the sounds of it.
Ive been fed up for the last few weeks because Im off work with labyrinthitis. Id never heard of it but it means my ear is all over the place, its some inner ear problem. Too much time on your hands is no good, and Im not good at being ill because I cant do all the things I like doing, and being busy at work is one of them. Sounds like you are overthinking things, book a holiday and go and relax

 

[The Pink Panther]

Ditto that and my pension fund will equate to grand sum of fuck all even though there's a fair old wedge in there

Does it make you sick to the stomach when the media discuss footballer's wages and for example, they'll say things such as Harry Kane should be given a £40k per week pay rise!

 

[bugsyblue]

It's not a midlife crisis mate, it's reality for all ages. Some people see it. Others don't. Some prefer to bury their heads in the sand, others choose to look after number one. Th problem is inequality and the wealth divide, I'm scared to have kids because I really worry how bad the world will be in the future. It's shit basically.

 

[bugsyblue]

You need to go on holiday by the sounds of it.
Ive been fed up for the last few weeks because Im off work with labyrinthitis. Id never heard of it but it means my ear is all over the place, its some inner ear problem. Too much time on your hands is no good, and Im not good at being ill because I cant do all the things I like doing, and being busy at work is one of them. Sounds like you are overthinking things, book a holiday and go and relax

I had labyrinthitis this time last year mate. It's awful! Had it for 3 weeks over Xmas.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I had labyrinthitis this time last year mate. It's awful! Had it for 3 weeks over Xmas.

Id have been happy with 3 weeks, its been 8 weeks now. Not dizzy anymore but my ear is ringing and thumping like a twat, like pressure in it. Very unpleasant business. No word from the ENT bloke either yet, I should have gone private really but Ive spent the money on Guinness now with all the time off

 

[abu13]

I think what is really bothering me is that at my age ( nearly 50 ) i have gone through the usual issues, raising a family and developing a career to support the family and you realise how hard it is to do so, I then look at the advantages that i had as a youngster that kids nowadays won't have the luxury of and really dispair for them. When you then see how corruption and politics play there part in maintaining this it just makes me feel sick. For the money we will spend on Trident we could wipe out poverty in the UK, I have a good friend how is a lecturer and very highly qualified he has a good job at a college and struggles to get through from month to month, Like myself he doesn't live a lavish lifestyle but he can't save anything each month. We now have a generation who are having to get by on minimum wage in a consumer driven society. It's no wonder there is so much mental illness given the levels of stress people must be under.

 

[abu13]

Ditto that and my pension fund will equate to grand sum of fuck all even though there's a fair old wedge in there

Does it make you sick to the stomach when the media discuss footballer's wages and for example, they'll say things such as Harry Kane should be given a £40k per week pay rise!

Exactly, When a sportsman can earn more in a week than a teacher does in a year there is something seriously fucked up.

 

[abu13]

It's not a midlife crisis mate, it's reality for all ages. Some people see it. Others don't. Some prefer to bury their heads in the sand, others choose to look after number one. Th problem is inequality and the wealth divide, I'm scared to have kids because I really worry how bad the world will be in the future. It's shit basically.

If I am totally honest there are times when a have seriously felt guilty about having kids just because of the future they are likely to face,

 

[PinkFinal]

I don't think I've intentionally watched the news since the 90s, how anyone can stand it I don't know. I guess some would say that if you look for the bad you will easily find it.
I always assume everyone is living the dream and of course that's not true. Life is just cruel and painful and I don't know how it all carries on, the vicious contrast in fortunes.