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4 Aug 10 When You Stop Sleepwalking Through Life, They’ll Call it a Midlife Crisis
Humans are highly socialized animals - there are a lot of things we take for granted that we have learned from our environment without questioning growing up. The instinct to conform is borne out of the socialization process we go through growing up and coming off age.
These “self evident truths” we learn may not always be so self evident, but the urge to fit in is strong in most, strong enough to never question the life we have fallen into, and strong enough to ridicule those who walk a different path.
If you chose not to have a traditional career, not marry, not have kids, or decide not to do any of the other things society expects, you are an outsider. If you question whether your life should be about sitting in a cubicle in an office, turning and churning out documents, you are likely to be seen as a weirdo by most of your surrounding. If, for some reason you take action on your dreams and desires for something else, something different, you’ll be lucky if anyone understands you.
If stop sleepwalking through life like most do, people around you will likely point and laugh and say you have an early midlife crisis (or midlife crisis if you are old enough). It is strange that stepping out of the gray twilight of mediocrity to pursue what you really want is seen as an oddity.
Those who awaken to the world and all that it has to offer are doomed to be ridiculed for having their eyes open by those who are intent to continue sleepwalking through their lives towards their graves. But that’s ok.
