Midlife Crisis

When I’ve heard the word, midlife crisis for the first time in my life, I though it meant “menopausal syndrome”, but it does not. It means psychological and physical challenges as well as stresses that people between 40 and 60 have or experience. It includes declining health, pressures from work and their families. During the middle life, they have heavy responsibilities for their children and parents. Yes, I did. As a result of this, people tend to be depressed and amplify their concerns. This phenomenon is called midlife crisis. These struggles, however, might give them a chance to rethink their everyday lives and open doors to a new world, the vignette I have read says. That’s good to know, but fortunately, or unfortunately, I have not had a midlife crisis. Maybe I have been so busy in raising three kids, working at the office, and studying new things that I couldn’t have introspective time, or in Japan, we do not have the idea of midlife crisis. Anyway, whenever I feel down, I go to the mountains. When I am walking there, I am thinking that life is like mountain climbing. There must be ups and downs in life, and I go through a peak, yet another peak is waiting. Life must go on, so I must keep going step by step like walking in mountains.