Mid Life Progression

Here are some symptoms of Mid life progression - I’d not call it crisis as many does and you will know why at the end:

1) Financial planning - starting or increasing your investments and starting to read boring books on finance (I recommend “The Richest Man in Babylon” and also please avoid those youtubers talking about “how ro retire early” as that’s their mid-life plan)

2) Life planning - getting or upgrading your life & health insurance policies (my 2 cents - keep the life cover and investment separate as I’ve been through the same mistake)

3) Health planning - starting to focus on diet and physical activities eg. keto diet, intermittent fasting, 5k/10k run, yoga retreat, cycling to mahabalipuram (Some still think cigarette to Vape and moderate amount of alcohol consumption are better - time to wake up bros)

Last & most importantly:

4) Friends  planning - Having focused on work & family across their 30s, everyone wants to get onto entertainment bandwagon once in a while and I need not tell the popular destination choices

I’d say all these are good but do it without regretting the past as we have gotten to this stage because of some level of achievement & content and you are just getting to the next life stage…

As thalaivar said,

“Ettu etta manusha vaazhva pirichikko, Nee   endha ettil ippo irrukka nenaichukko”