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[quote=Anonymous]I’m feeling sympathetic, OP., and am working through similar feelings. For myself, I think it’s a very classic case of midlife … not crisis, more like midlife slump.

Everyone has such high expectations for life in their 20s and then hits their 40s feeling that they’ve underachieved and regretting wasting their potential. It’s exacerbated for people like us who pulled themselves out of the working class and so had even higher expectations in their 20s that are now being cruelly dashed in midlife.

It really helps me to remind myself that it gets better on the other side, that it does get better for most people when they move into their 50s. And also to know that I’m not alone - and in fact, this whole millennial generation is probably about to go through a major wave of midlife crisis. All those tech workers who in their 20s thought they were going to “change the world” are in for a huge shock finding themselves as laid-off 40 year olds this year.

Here are some books I’m reading to help move through this. 
Late Bloomers, Rich Karlgaard
Dark Horses, Todd Rose
The Happiness Curve, Jonathan Rausch

I also took up some hobbies recently - novel-writing and long distance running are things I wanted to do in my 20s and am now finding to be easier to do in my 40s. It’s been helpful to find things I can improve at and gives me hope that I’m not stuck where I am[/quote]

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