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So the article reads, millennials are hopefully making the world realize that the midlife crisis, for all its cliches, was never really about the Tawdry affair or the red Corvette. Why is it always red? The stressors of midlife for so many Americans are not existential. They're material, economic, familial and political. They're about the seemingly decent paycheck that is spent almost entirely on childcare student loan repayment and medical debt, leaving nothing to build a nest egg or save for their children's futures
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:54
Some people who have not had the midlife crisis, even if they are in that specific age range, but they have done the things that religion, family, society, community has said to do, and they have walked and towed that line so narrowly all of their life. It frightens them to see someone living so freely. They're like, Wait a minute. How can they do that? How dare he or she do that? I can't interpret that. I don't know
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:36
And if anything I think what we would think of as a typical midlife crisis happened in their mid to late twenty s or early thirty s. And so now they're living very intentionally as much as they can now. Rather than having fallen into kind of more heteronormative ways of living in their twenty s and then feeling like they have to escape it by their 40s. So it's going to be interesting to see. I'm also curious
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