Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.
Japan?? Ummm, wut? Damnit… I’m still going.
Where is the one for dating someone 15-20 years younger than you?
Fucking legends
That’s the post divorce crisis
That’s a sub class, if you pick running then you’ll date a younger runner. If you pick Japan then you’ll date a young Japanese person etc.
You forgot about bouldering / rock climbing
Just as I thought I weren’t a stereotype… oh well…
Did I speedrun a midlife crisis in my 20s? 🤔 Never did pickleball, but that’s pretty synonymous with retirees over 60 in my corner of the world.
Japan…
i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure
i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS
You might like the AdamDoesNotExist YouTube channel
Notjustbikes is also wonderful.
I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.
As far as I can tell, gen z’s more into Korea, Japan already seems passé (being in a midlife crisis meme doesn’t help)
Add gardening, birdwatching, golf, volunteering?
oh weird, same. Though switch golf with mushroom foraging
Cycling, an instrument, home brewing, a golden retriver…
Home brewing started in my mid 20s for cheap mead. Now the only difference is slightly nicer gear like glass demijohns instead of cola bottles and added variety. Started infusing spirits with things too.
You must be thinking of a retirement-crisis
!birding@lemmy.world is a community on Lemmy! we have birb
Hufflepuff.
Wait a minute…
No, I stand by it. Just replace the badger with a blunt.
What do I do if mine’s not on here? What kind of mid-life-crisis is this?
I picked drinking and having a band. Except that’s also what I did from age 16 to 40. Maybe I’ve always been in crisis.
Welcome friend.
We all mid-life down here.You’re perfect, yes it’s true!
But without me-e, you’re only you
I have done all of these. None of them were a midlife crisis - that was straight fucking.
Go on…
Is fucking a hobby now?
Well it is during a midlife crisis.
Which AI generated slop are you?
Well I’m forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don’t hate listening to my own screams.
So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that’s mine.
Music 🎼🎵🎶
More specifically: playing the instruments: drum, piano/keyboard, clarinet, guitar, whatever else 🥁🎹🎸🎷🎺🎻🪗🪘🎛️
Bonus points for “getting back to”, as in: something you got a start as a young fella but then life happens and you stopped doing it, and now that your bone aches when it is cold your mind went to old times when life felt brighter.
Where’s the “Reclusive hermit” one.
Does this come with a “let’s try growing that beard back out” starter pack?
My closest one would be running. I started doing 5 minutes a day on an old exercise bike where the computer and thus the resistance motor didn’t work in september, gradually adding more time as I got into better shape.
It was when I got a new one that actually works in mid January that I REALLY got going, though, and I’ve put in 90 hours for a total of 3813 km (2369 miles) since then.
For context, that’s more than the straight line distance between Washington DC and Los Angeles or almost the distance between London, England and Gao, Mali.
As far as mid life crises go, that along with eating a lot better ain’t so bad 😁
Less like a crisis, more like a solution
I fell into running…hard. I went from almost no physical exercise to running marathons over the space of 2 years. Did my first 100km ultra in December.
I’m on track to do the same right now. Was virtually sedentary until January of this year and now I’m doing 25 miles a week and get grumpy when I can’t run.
I see I’ve found another Type 2 connoisseur.
