40's - The Age of Depression
I heard a report yesterday that said that people in their 40's are prone to depression. I instantly thought of the Springsteen line from the Promised Land -
"I've done my best to live the right way, I get up every morning and go to work each day, but your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold, sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode."
That kind of sums up how I feel on Friday's in my 40's - but I usually garner enough energy again by Monday. Twenty years ago, Friday night meant happy hour which turned into happy weekend, and all remnants were gone by Sunday night.
It's a strange twist. In the same report it said that men are growing up a lot slower these days - it said that a lot of men in their 20's are playing video games and not in much of a hurry to accept responsibility. The article referred to these men as manchilds.
Life certainly has changed - my father had six kids by the time he hit his mid-thirties. He had built his own home, and had already been a productive member of a workforce for twenty some years. I can'timagine him sitting on his couch playing Madden.
Not sure where it all went wrong. I'm 43 - I'm not depressed - I feel like I'm in the middle of the week with a long glorious weekend coming up.
Yet if social security dries up, perhaps I will be more like the character in the Bruce song - I can't see sluffing off to work thirty years from now - I want to be on the couch playing MLB2038.
"I've done my best to live the right way, I get up every morning and go to work each day, but your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold, sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode."
That kind of sums up how I feel on Friday's in my 40's - but I usually garner enough energy again by Monday. Twenty years ago, Friday night meant happy hour which turned into happy weekend, and all remnants were gone by Sunday night.
It's a strange twist. In the same report it said that men are growing up a lot slower these days - it said that a lot of men in their 20's are playing video games and not in much of a hurry to accept responsibility. The article referred to these men as manchilds.
Life certainly has changed - my father had six kids by the time he hit his mid-thirties. He had built his own home, and had already been a productive member of a workforce for twenty some years. I can'timagine him sitting on his couch playing Madden.
Not sure where it all went wrong. I'm 43 - I'm not depressed - I feel like I'm in the middle of the week with a long glorious weekend coming up.
Yet if social security dries up, perhaps I will be more like the character in the Bruce song - I can't see sluffing off to work thirty years from now - I want to be on the couch playing MLB2038.
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