Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
Your midlife crisis is all society's fault. You remember the days of you as an individual, a naive youngster who thought the world was to be embraced, who thought the world was here for fun interaction and self development, before you met the crush of you realizing the world is here for you to become a faceless cog of society, give up on your identity get a job and start a family like a normal functioning human. Become societal standard dad. It is not the natural development of the self to become boring, it is the thing that happens when you become entrapped by society. It doesn't mean you're not supposed to pick a career and procreate, it does mean you weren't supposed to become societal standard dad. Traditional family structure dad. Most of the time, the brain don't want to become societal standard dad, it's unnatural.
So embrace your midlife crisis, have fun. You're not losing your marbles like your family thinks you are, well you are but it's a positive loss of marbles not the loss of marbles your family thinks it is, societal standard family structure generic dad life is getting to you and so you lust for the days when life had any semblance of substance whatsoever. It's a really horrible thing society has done to you, drained you of everything that is worthwhile about this life and turned it into a series of commitments, tell all of it to go fuck itself. "Adults give up on concept of fun. That's just the way it is." In the future we won't have to deal with it, you are still dad but you are dad with an identity and independence.
The nature of maturity is giving up on idealism. Thinking about the greater good is incredibly naive. Bring yourself down to Earth, be more practical, think about yourself, your family, your community and your nation. The world is a complicated and difficult place, and so it is incredibly naive of you to be concerned with any sort of greater good rather than focus on these four levels of self interest. It's a lot easier, it's a more reasonable and mature state of being. While you're at it you should also probably close your mind and resist progress like a reasonable mature adult, one who has grown out of their immature idealistic liberal phase. You're looking like an immature adorable idiot. You don't even understand the meaning of life is give it all up and become societal standard dad. It's a little sad, an adult with ideals, an adult with an identity, we chuckle at you, you're like a child.
You didn't develop properly according to how the brain wanted, how God wanted, societal standard dad. At age forty you hit your intellectual personality creative peak, from here on you are the best you, from here on you are the most impressive you can be... As you physically deteriorate and refine your knowledge. We all hit ours in our late thirties but you know how it is with us. From age forty what you wish to do is maintain impressive, not submit to the idea you don't need to maintain anything impressive anymore and you can just live comfortable happy boring nothing. Obviously with many of you, you don't have anything all that impressive to accomplish, however at age forty you were meant to be exposed to the world, interacting, being the best you can be, not sitting at home watching television trying your best to ignore your likely now relatively self sufficient children.
People like you make society think you peak in your twenties, no, it just looks that way because within societal standards life goes downhill pretty dramatically after your twenties. Your sex life peak isn't your peak, that's not how this place was actually meant to operate. People say you're more attractive in your twenties but as long as society hasn't hammered the improper compartmentalization wrinkles into you I find you're more attractive in your thirties. I myself in my twenties thought "There is no way there are any more intellectual or personality plateaus after this, I can still put a lot more information in my head however I have peaked." But, no, even Kit Carruthers still had two more plateaus to hit. I had received incorrect education as to the nature of development, the nature of the peak seems to be some sort of hidden underground secret knowledge.