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I think I had a midlife crisis".
The European Union, which turns 50 in March, is suffering something of a midlife crisis; Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, which holds the EU's presidency for the first half of the year, writes of her plans to consult intensively on injecting new life into the constitutional process.
But, say the authors of this article, for today's middle-aged executive, "midlife is your best and last chance to become the real you".The authors aim to debunk two myths.
The first is that "midlife marks the onset of decline".
His wife Jenny, after telling Vogue magazine that her husband was having a "midlife crisis", has left the governor's mansion, taking the couple's four sons with her.
But then in midlife, just as the couple's son is entering his teens, Ed is struck with early-onset Alzheimer's dementia, and Eileen is forced to carry her shattered family forward on her own.Mr Thomas's mother grew up in the same Irish enclave of Queens as Eileen and, like her, became a nurse; likewise, his father died of early-onset Alzheimer's.
Each of the stories is offered as a sort of snapshot whose position in the bigger picture only emerges slowly.Several of them follow Vic, a policeman's son, from his early childhood to a near-suicidal midlife crisis.
All this adds up to the cost of a fancy motorbike and, the 45-year-old Dr Antunes jokes, a better way for one to deal with a midlife crisis.
He stands besieged by his own metaphors.In this section Look again Songlines Con or can do Winds of cosmopolitanism Bearing witness ReprintsYet his midlife letters this is the fifth of six projected volumes reveal quite a different man.
Crisis management"The existential necessity of midlife change"Harvard Business Review, February 2008By Carlo Strenger and Arie RuttenbergBenjamin Disraeli, a prime minister of Britain in the 19th century, once noted gloomily that (to paraphrase) youth is a blunder, middle-age a struggle and old-age a regret.
