Thinking out loud

 So I asked Chat GPT (don't we all) what a midlife crisis in men and this is what he came up with. My comments below.  . What Is a Midlife Crisis? A midlife crisis is a period of emotional turmoil or deep self-reflection that some men experience, typically between their late 30s and mid-50s. It is often triggered by the realization that life is finite and that certain goals, identities, or dreams may no longer be attainable—or may need to be redefined. Importantly, not all men experience a midlife crisis. For many, midlife is a time of stability or growth. The term describes a pattern of responses rather than an inevitable life stage. Now that I think of it, I did see this in some men.My brother had 2 motorcycles in is 30s, he quit for a while, in hid 40s bought a dirt bike than a second bigger one. Another firend bought a scooter (also used to have one when he was younger). It was a 400cc big Yamaha majesty just so "it would be harder to steal). Wouldn't mind a conve...

  If the YouTube link fails, listen to Ed Sheeran's Photograph. It took me this long to learn that each time you access a memory, you alter it a little. That's why over time and with enough accessing, you wind up deleting the bad parts of a relationship and only keep the good (or vice versa). In times before Social media and even TV, people used to spedn some time writing down their actions during their day, emotions, what happened to them. Tried a few times as a kid, nobody explained that emotions and human interactions were more important than homework subjects or what I ate so it didn't last.     I would have loved today to look back on those and try to understand why some of the things I do today are shaped by what I did or felt back then; I'm lucky enough that some conversations from an important part of my life (formative, one might say) and I'm only now realisng some stuff by re re reading them. Journaling would be a way to store for tommrow what you felt and...

If the Video link fails, Listen to Beyoncé – If I were a boy      I'm in my 4th decade of life, and I have been learning all my life. From learning to tie my shoelaces, to learning to read, to learning to debate or how to calculate the kinetic energy of a car based on the deformations after a crash, I have been learning. Not all that I have been learning was part of the school curriculum or my work-related goals. For example, I only started reading romance novels a few years ago in the interest of documenting a project. Yes, they are not psychology, yet they do give a window on how women wish love to work (most being written by women for women). Ah, the things I would have done differently had I red some of those in my adolescent years...        I have in my time learned about operating an AKM, a lathe, and a whisky still, how to build a composite boat hull; or how a sewing machine works. Some info was "maybe uusefull in the future, you do...