At 44, you've got life sorted. Your job at the biotech facility is challenging, intellectually rewarding and pays well enough to support your wonderful family and the mortgage on your 4-bedroom semi-detached house, with its manicured lawn and neatly trimmed hedges, and there is enough left over at the end of the month for an annual holiday. Lately your wife has been looking into cruises. She is excited to see the fjords of Norway and the Northern Lights, and likes to point out that you can play croquet on deck.
It all looks lovely, yet it fills you with dread. Every time she shows you glossy pictures of the smiling, silver-haired OAPs sailing around the world on their deckchairs, your blood runs cold. You can see the future laid out before you, the steady, easy slide towards retirement; the long, empty years of comfortable existence beyond as you slowly grow old.
Perhaps this is what a mid-life crisis feels like. You don't want to be comfortable, you want things to be exciting like they were when you were young! You want to feel virile again. God knows you don't get that from your wife - though you still love her dearly, she's more interested in knitting than sex these days. A part of you finds your attention straying to other, younger women.
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