midlife

Symptoms often appear in midlife.

Every time I think of my old idea of midlife — that dreary pasture full of drab linens — laughter bubbles out of me.

The chartthrob fixation, in 2020 and now, is just TikTok for people on the cusp of a midlife crisis: an obsession that seems harmless until you find yourself at the bottom of the rabbit hole somewhere around 3 a.m.

He says, in the punishment cell, he is getting “for free” the experience of staying silent, eating scant food and getting away from the outside world that “rich people suffering from a midlife crisis” pay for.

I see an accomplished power player in midlife at the peak of a highly successful TV writing career, self-satisfied and oozing with agency.