Middle age and the drunken fear of uselessness Sylvia Plath feared the slow horror of fading into an indifferent middle age. But maybe ‘uselessness’ isn’t the enemy, maybe it’s just life, and the trick is knowing how to drink it down.

#SylviaPlath’s real horror wasn’t death. It was #mediocrity:

“Well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

We still fear the same thing.

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#DrunkPhilosophy #Mediocrity #Stoicism #Anxiety #MiddleLifeCrisis

Donc il faut que je me trouve une nouvelle occupation marrante de ma vie. Et si pour une fois cela n’avait rien à voir avec le boulot ?
#middlelifecrisis

I finally baked my first piece of bread. With sourdough, dry one, but I am trying to raise my own. What is this if not middle age crisis???

#baking #bread #sourdough #middlelifecrisis