Something like the Mid Life Crisis

We, Maldivians go from a child to adult. The teenager and youth are stages that we don’t get across. Life pretty much stinks when you don’t get to enjoy these stages. Today, we are playful and being stupid when tomorrow we are to take immense responsibilities and liabilities. Today, we are to be fed like infants, maintained like children when tomorrow there is a million people looking over you and being dependent on you.

And we aren’t terrible at this either. We take great responsibilities and we make our ancestors pleased and proud of us. Our leaders are a very good instance of our nature, young and blooming with mass responsibilities and authority.

That’s a scenario to be proud of. However, the shocking side of it is slightly beyond it. We go from a child to an adult. Where is the fun part of life, when we live so recklessly and so carefree that we don’t have any worries or weight over our shoulders? Where are the days when we go to sleep without worrying what tomorrow might be. Where is the day when we don’t worry about the world economy or the wars around us?

This absence is brought to our senses only after we’ve lost it, when its time to regret what’s being left out. When it’s too late for you to live that life. When you are too grown up for a fun day at the beach. When you are too mature for a high day. Basically, when it’s too late. And then it becomes a crisis. The settled, responsible and the well structured life crashes down in front of your eyes. This is something like the Mid Life Crisis; only thing is that it happens when you are very young and juvenile and when it’s not your mid life.

So, I hope (if I have any further generations of me) my children will live their life stage by stage. Enjoy the fun being children, the temptation being a teenager, the excitement of being a youth and the responsiveness of being an adult. In fact I hope all of us pattern their life accordingly so that they don’t loose a million years of progressive stages, with ought to be interesting and enduring for a temporary lifetime as such.