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[wispfox]

sunyata__ pointed to it before I got to it on my own, so I credit her.

pasquin says Mid life crisis is the negative spin on a necessary confrontation with this reality: you may not have as many years left as you have already lived. What are you going to do with this epiphany? This is the one life, and if you fail to live it as you want, nobody will care. You should.

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[sunstealer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you read much but if you do, pick up a copy of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches (http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=4-0375502874-0). It's largely about a man and about 25 days from his life during middle age and some rather poignant moments of the midlife crisis, but approached from a different perspective than most. He fears not the loss of his youth but the loss of the life he has at the moment, which he loves despite its flaws and day to day mundanity. It's told in short segments that reflect his thouhts each morning before the rest of his family wakes up, while he sits in the kitchen in front of a fire and drinks his coffee.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

don't know if you read much

Generally, yes. Right now, what with packing, no. :)

And thanks for the suggestion!