You wake up one morning and the calendar tells you that you’ve already entered your forties. Am I really going to feel different? Is it how to enter into crisis? Surely those are the first questions that come to your mind, but yes, sooner or later you will end up questioning your whole life. The decisions you have made and if you have fulfilled the dreams or the social, work and economic expectations that you had are some of the aspects that you will submit to review and criticism.
And, as always, we ourselves are the harshest judges, the toughest judges and, without even realizing it, we will enter what is known as the crisis of the 40s or “midlife crisis.” But What is the crisis of 40 and how to overcome it? Join us and discover its symptoms and how to deal with this episode of your life.
The crisis of 40 the most common symptoms
This term, that of midlife or 40s crisis, was described and conceptualized as such by the psychologist Daniel J. Levinson. A crisis that arises when the person is about to reach 40 years or even a few years later, at a more advanced time of it.
At that time in life, it is observed how many people usually tend to carry out a deep review of your life experience and assess whether certain decisions have been worthwhile, whether they are happy and satisfied with their appearance and physical shape, their partner, their friends, their social relationships and their work.
Everything that is part of everyday life is subjected to that analysis and examination, also drawing conclusions and awakening a will or desire for change and transformation towards our youthful desires or the desires that have awakened later.
In some cases, people undergo radical changes and they can go from resorting to cosmetic operations to divorcing, looking for a new partner, changing residence, abandoning work and / or starting to study again.
How can we face the crisis of the 40?
Perhaps the best way to get through this moment of our lives is to take the iron off the issue and live in the moment without drama, opening ourselves to new possibilities and solutions. It is about building and setting new goals, but without obsessions and always valuing the past and everything positive that we have achieved, in addition to the happiness that we have given to all those people we have loved and have been by our side.
It is also basic abandon all preconceptions and approach your life with optimism. The 40s are also a fabulous age and new technologies allow us to recover, in an instant, the time that we seem to have lost. Travel, have fun in a sincere way, meet people and reconnect with old and dear friends, write, read, create and value and appreciate everything you have.
Live the present and filling every moment with humor and enthusiasm reconciles you with yourself and with your life.
Bibliography
Grün, A. (1988). Half of life as a spiritual task: The crisis of the 40-50 years (Vol. 126). Narcea Editions.
Cukier, J. (2004). The crisis of mature age in men. Advances in Relational Mental Health, 3 (2), 2.
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