After confiding to a friend about my recent restlessness, my existential search for meaning and my journey to Peru, she asked, “Can you have a midlife crisis before you’re 40?” I took it as a compliment. Not yet 35, I was proud to be a crisis prodigy. But it’s not just me—many Gen-X men (now aged 22-35) are having similar experiences.
Paradoxically, as life expectancy increases, midlife crises are happening sooner. The term itself has become a misnomer, since 49 percent of Xers often feel that something is missing in their lives.
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