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Essay on What is the Physical Changes Crisis in our Midlife?
Midlife Crisis is a natural process (first identified by the psychologist Carl Jung) and it is a normal part of 'maturing'(midlife crisis, stress and depression). Midlife transition usually takes place at some point in everyone’s life (usually at about 40, give or take 20 years). According to a famous proverb, Midlife is the old age of youth and the youth of old age. Thus many people who enter at this age are standing on the threshold of a "new youth." It is what Gail Sheehy in her book, New Passages, calls the "second adulthood" (Midlife Metamorphosis). Dr. Ronald Kessler from the MacArthur Foundation Midlife Network tells that midlife can be the best of times and the worst of times…It just depends on the gender, the class, and the age of the person” (midlife).
Midlife is a normal developmental life stage. It is essentially positive and has the specific goal of facilitating the process of becoming a "whole" person. Saying it is ‘normal’ means that it cannot be avoided i.e. live long enough but you will encounter it. As one cannot avoid adolescence so is the case with midlife. Midlife may be denied but not escaped. Adolescence was meant to transform child to an adult and it was not meant to be fun. Likewise, Midlife also intends to transform one towards second adulthood and it is not to enjoy. Midlife in fact, takes one to a positive place i.e. towards psychological and spiritual wholeness (what is midlife?)......
