Midlife crisis

I'm old enough. That's true. I've run my last long distance run. I'm not sad but I lack something for sure. Perhaps there's someone in my past that was the one that got away. I think a lot. I've gone to collect records again too. Is this my midlife crisis? I've been neglecting myself. Not keeping up appearances. I look like someone's gran these days. How I hate that. They get younger each year, those grandparents. How come that I can only connect to those that are out of reach? Is it my curse? I can't help that I think a lot. Once I fooled around in the hay like there was no tomorrow. Now tomorrow has come and there's even no hay any more. Politicians have been turned into glorified commedians. Art has become past modern modernism. Don't like to own anything but surely like to enjoy something more than mediocracy. Let the wild bunch ride again. Babysitters all grown up and grans themselves. I feel way too old at times. Like this morning. I used to howl at the moon but nowadays just go early to bed in order to wake up in the cold. I'm not sad, just mourning the friends that have gone and the love that still out there but out of reach again.

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SomeMichGuy · M

[quote]Give one example of something great recently. No way compares to what there once was.[/quote]

1) Databases which are searchable are much better ways to hone in on information than a card catalog. The meander through the latter was fun, but it isn't the way to efficiently access information when one has specific / particular questions.

2) Since you are a thinker and reader, the access to actual information (not just the crap of people photographing their meals or sharing unfounded & ungrounded opinions) is amazing.

3) YouTube has become a treasure trove of short tutorials by persons with the "10,000 hours of experience" helping to pass on that specific information to help
one successfully complete projects, etc.

4) Many texts and much music which have / has gone out of copyright are available freely over the internet.

5) Access to reference information is much better.

6) Access to free training/learning materials is much better.

7) Access to trip-related information is much easier.

8) Access to banking and investing is much easier.

9) Access to a vast array of retail items is much easier.

val70 · 51-55

@SomeMichGuy And yet since the world wars there's no real center to our civilisation

SomeMichGuy · M

@val70
First--to deal with the quote of your contention--I think that there are items in the list which shows current things which *are* "greater than what was". (I will also grant that setting the cost of publishing has also exponentially increased the banal and useless. I also love actual books, myself.)

Second, what do you mean by "a center to our civilization"?

val70 · 51-55

@SomeMichGuy The Second Coming by WB Yeats

SomeMichGuy · M

@val70 A very anti-inspirational writing!