Up: [[The In-Between Times]] Related: [[Life]] Created: 2024-02-06 Updated: 2025-01-10 Since most of us live to eighty, midlife is now considered to be between 35 and 45 years of age. The term ‘midlife crisis’ originated in the mid 1960s with Elliot Jaques, a Canadian physician and psychoanalyst. He described it as a period of depression or anxiety because of our recognition of the inevitability of our death. But crisis is an overstatement for most people at midlife. A crisis is an *acute catastrophic event*. It’s really not that common. Midlife is instead a developmental transition. The task is to wake up and find your [[Calling]].