Are you going through a female MLC?

WHAT KATI DID NEXT:

I was just wondering if it is acceptable for women to have an open mid-life crisis?

What do we think? I’m only asking because a friend of mine, all right I admit, it’s me, is having one. I think.

I didn’t really understand the concept of the mid-life crisis prior to this, I always thought it was an excuse for the male of the species to spend a bit of cash on a sports car/gym membership/woman (delete as applicable) but now I think I am feeling it.

Not that I am planning on any of the above, no, far too much hassle.

What I am thinking of is more about grabbing life by the scruff of the neck and giving it a really good shake.

I was chatting about this with a friend of mine this weekend regarding whether or not she had felt any of the twinges of the female MLC.

She said she had and she also said that she knew a lot of women who felt the same and yet it’s not something we hear a lot about is it?

The FMLC. I wonder why that is? It’s not very media friendly is it. Women are meant to be in control at all times and documenting the momentary loss of control is not very pro-woman?

My friend and I talked about the creeping sense of unease that appeared, forcing you to reassess where you were in life.

How unfulfilled and unsatisfied you were but mainly for both of us it appeared as a moment of clarity.

She wanted to move to Brighton and retrain as a paediatrician. I wanted some other stuff but no less monumental. It’s almost as if there comes a time in one’s life where you realise suddenly, as time flies by, that there is only one life to live and to wake up suddenly too old to make and enjoy those decisions would be criminal.

It’s less a mid-life crisis, more a mid-life kick up the bum. The grass is never ever greener; the sports car will break down, the gym membership will expire and the woman will nag you about leaving the toilet seat up.

I suddenly want to get on with living for the day. Fancy joining me ladies?