It happens, we all reach that point in life where we reflect on where we've been and what we've accomplished and think, What do i do now? Where do i go from here? What do I have to show for my life?
I think this is commonly mistaken for a "mid life" crisis, when in reality it is a daily dilemma that faces people all over the world everyday.
When you think of a midlife crisis you may think of the standard man turning 40 and going out and buying an overly expensive sports car. For some reason we've neglected to try and see what that man feels, and why it happens at all.
We live in a society that has us so convinced that everyone has all the answers all the time and that we should have the answers all the time as well. It's a beautifully crafted lie that when you become and adult you do what you want and life makes sense, when in reality you spend your time running around looking for answers only to find more questions while running into other people with other questions. All these people running around with questions assume that you have already asked yourself the same questions, but you know the answers. What are the question?
What do I do now? Where do I go from here? How do I get there?
It's time to face the facts, we will never know the answers. There will be times when we think we know, so we pursue our answers only to find that they change and shift as we move forward with an ending result of something that was nothing at all like what we started out with.
As we grow older we realize more and more that these answers do not exist, but we do get something from our searching for them. An adventure.
Life is unorganized and chaotic, but we move forward searching for something, doing things to get us from one place to another. Even the days that you don't want to get out of bed and you decide to skip class or call in sick you are moving forward and creating opportunity.
If we could all just stop pretending that everyone knows the answer, that everyone else has life figured out and knows what they're doing.
