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Kevin Alexander's avatar

Am I alone?

Am I crazy?

Do I think too much?

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My quick answers, in order: Absolutely not. No. If you are, then I do as well.

As to why we (GenX) don;t talk about it a lot? I think alot of that is driven by the idea that in our minds many of us still see ourselves as younger than we really are. As an anecdotal example, I work with people born after I was hired, but in my mind, I'm still that kid in his 20s who first walked through the doors.

Another part of that is that many of us are --or soon will be-- empty nesters, which means a move away from being "mom" or "dad," and back to being "Kevin" or "Rocco."

I hope this makes more sense than I think it does!

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Patti Petersen's avatar

I'm older than you by quite a bit. The emotional day-to-day stuff was like a roller coaster back then. It was weird. So much was changing (aging parents, middle age health weirdness accelerates around that time - especially in women; kids I can't speak about, and the dawn of understanding that holy cow "I'd better get my shit together" phase) that it's all one can do to tackle the day to day... if you try and look at the overall picture it can be a bit daunting. I don't think most can or want to handle thinking about it.

Journaling helped me a lot.

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