mid-life crisis?

[chingsburg]

I bought a 150cc chinese scooter as a starter bike. Within 3 weeks I bought my vt750. The scooter is cute and fun but just not fast enough for the trips back and forth to work. (was getting about 62 mph max...full throttle) I still love the scooter but I love the Shadow even more. Single mom...4 vehicles all tagged and insured...one driver. I wonder if it's it normal for a woman to have a mid-life crisis?

[kacealraid]

I think everyone has a "any excuse they can get" crisis. Mine was that I couldn't afford a car and insurance, so I took to two wheels.

[vzshadow]

I also started on a scooter and quickly moved up to my present bike. The wife did pretty much the same thing. She's now on a '06 Shadow VLX, but she still has a Honda VLX scooter. Two drivers, 6 vehicles. At least my insurance company gives us a fleet rate! Ha!

I also like the scooter. Lots of fun to ride.

[joe in calif]

Welcome and congratulations on your purchase. 4 vehicles WOW, your insurance person must really love you!! How about some pictures of your scooter and your 750?

[Djin]

I had a Tomos Revival moped for years before I finally bought Billy-the-Death-Machine-of-Love. (It's named after my husband, he came up with the death machine part) I wanted a motorcycle for years, but never had the money or parking space until this summer. This was also the summer I finally went skydiving for the first time. It's not a mid-life crisis. It's "finally have the time and money to do what I want to do." If it is a mid-life crisis, we are going to have a lot of fun together, and I hope it lasts forever! Enjoy yours as well.

[93gc40]

It NOT the vehicles that makes it a Mid-Life crisis. It's when the people you are dating are the age of your children.

[kacealraid]

Originally Posted by 93gc40

It NOT the vehicles that makes it a Mid-Life crisis. It's when the people you are dating are the age of your children.

There's your real sign.

[Bennie01]

I prefer the term "mid-life celebration". At least that's what I called it when I bought my 750 shadow spirit this year.

[steve2010]

I called it the kids are gone and my money can be spent on me.

[Amos Iron Wolf]

It's more tired of letting other people keep holding you down with "you can't, shouldn't better not." Tired of hearing how you will get killed if you do anything you might actually enjoy and really find life in. It's finally saying, "Screw 'em!" to the voices around you telling you no and to the ones in your head claiming to be rational. It's finally deciding to live a little more true to yourself.

You may try something and decide it isn't for you, but at least you know that now. You may try something and find it resonates down to your core and you feel at home now. It may indeed kill you at some point and in some way. You could get ran over by a bus in your sensible car while on the way to play bridge that you only just discovered you had a passion for. You could die skydiving. Or, you could die regretting all those things you never did because everyone told you that you shouldn't and you listened to them and so lived a life of wanting instead of doing. We all eventually die. Is it better to lose a few years and die happy and full of life than to just hang on and exist until the end of your lifespan?

People around you who have no clue and/or are still stuck in walking through life according to some arbitrary set of "sensible rules" will call it a mid-life crisis. Those who get it will call it things like, "waking up," or "taking over your own life," and similar.

Don't wake up and smell the coffee. Drink it up and demand a second cup and how ever many cups you want.

Enjoy the new ride and all the others you have too.