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<\/p>\nNostalgia is considered one of the lesser emotions, like sentimentality, a cheap thrill, not a worthy feeling like love or a passionately intense one like jealously or envy. But lately I\u2019ve been feeling nostalgic for the most passionate and intense period of my life\u2014the Sixties! Is it too late for me to have a midlife crisis?<\/p>\n
What would that look like for me?\u00a0 Instead of having an affair, or buying a snazzy racecar like some men do, maybe I\u2019d buy a beat-up old Volkswagen van, preferably one with the split windshield, pre-1968.\u00a0 I\u2019d go to a pawn shop and buy an old battery-operated 40-watt amplifier, and a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Then I\u2019d set off across the country, on a musical road trip!<\/p>\n
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from a store window in Woodstock, NY<\/em><\/p>\n I can\u2019t include the picture of myself on a similar trip in 1969, because I\u2019d blow my avatar cover as the blogger Metatron here at HNE, though many of my co-workers have already figured out who is Metatron.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s a bigger meaning at play here, and that is\u2014why should I have a midlife crisis at all? I\u2019m not in crisis mode. I\u2019m fairly comfortable with the arc of my life.\u00a0 Though realistically my life is at least two-thirds over, I have some satisfactions and some still unrealized hopes and dreams. I haven\u2019t given up. I\u2019m certainly not seeking to retain what\u2019s left of my youth. I don\u2019t dye my hair, I don\u2019t wear make-up (though a surprising number of men do these days!), and I\u2019m not going in for cosmetic surgery. What then is the source of my longing for those \u201cthrilling days of yesteryear<\/em>\u201d? I don\u2019t want to live in the past. The present and future are too exciting. Maybe it\u2019s natural and universal to start to look back when you reach a certain age.<\/p>\n What about you? Are you heading into those twilight years? What would your mid-life crisis look like? Have you had one? How did you fare? I\u2019d love to hear from others about how they are doing with the aging process, and whether they are looking back, and if so, with what kinds of feelings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nostalgia is considered one of the lesser emotions, like sentimentality, a cheap thrill, not a worthy feeling like love or a passionately intense one like jealously or envy. But lately I\u2019ve been feeling nostalgic for the most passionate and intense period of my life\u2014the Sixties! Is it too late for me to have a midlife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-body-and-spirit","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}