Intermediate Oldness - A discussion on middle age.

Hey guys

Hope you are happy and enjoying life.

In many stages of our lives, the bell plays an important role. You wake up to the sound of an alarm bell, we pray when we hear a temple or a church bell.

Your performance in your work or college is judged by a curve which is famously called the bell curve.

The way I see it the bell curve can also be applied in our lives and the If you fix age at the Y-axis, and time at in the X-axis, let's study the progression.

The minimum or the starting age I have considered is 6 years, as it is the ideal age for most of us when we started schooling.

The next stop I would make is at the age of 14 years where most of us will be thinking about which college to join and our streams and career.

Before I proceed, I would like to set some ground rules that this blog is based mostly on the Indian scenario and we will keep that limited to the middle-class financial premise.

So now The MR middle-class young man or a young girl has chosen his or stream, the college life just sails away like a dream and finally vola! He or she is a graduate!

Now for the job, though truly motivated by their college professors and other benefactors to become managers, CEOs’ and finally this word “entrepreneur” most of us end up in a white Collar job as I have read by a famous IIM professor it is called a “sweaty job”.

Meet Peter Griffin a middle-aged man! 

Courtesy: https://tanyongquan.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/family-guy/

 We toil in the AC chambers from morning afternoon or night till the next morning and go home with a sense of achievement on the great monotonous work we completed by glaring at the screens.

Now the timeline skewed up, and you are already 4 to 5 year old in a job! You would have switched companies likes gears may be or can also be working in the same firm with determination depends on your patience and tolerance.

Now let's go ahead and say you are in the 10 to 14 years range in your career this is like the end of the job for some extremely successful people who quit corporate and think of becoming entrepreneurs.

 But others too, due to their commitments would like to walk on the matted floorings for some years to come, this period is actually the middle age period for men and women.

I know some people who have suffered and even now suffering at this stage of their life and the reason for their woe are many.

Some become the caretakers of their mom, wife and children due to an untimely demise of his or her dad or something more unfortunate some women become the man of the house and take care of almost everything of that house.

Middle age for a man or a woman is a critical stage in their life as they would climb the bell curve and are now in a receding trend with loads of commitment on their shoulders.

The challenges is how many will come out of this stage and become successful dads’ moms’ and caretakers of their parents and try to balance their whole ecosystem.

I agree these difficulties are not much when compare to a soldier or any person who is in a force to protect law and order or a country.

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”
― Ogden Nash (Courtesy https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/middle-age)

But I would definitely commend the middle-aged people who fight their living and keep the wheel of their family running like silent soldiers who are also responsible for providing responsible citizens to the country which will help the country to move forward in many dimensions

Thanks for your epoch.

Helios.