A crisis maybe, mid life it may not be.

In today's Observer Magazine Miranda Sawyer wrote about a mid-life crisis/slump. She points out how at 24 she didn't know she would make it to 44, so it's pretty difficult to put the behaviour that characterises a mid-life crisis down to the fact that you are half way through your time on earth, because you could be 3/4 of your life through, or even 5/6 of the way, maybe 2/8, who's to say. It would be interesting to look at the lives of those who died before their perceived 'time' (or the age that is calculated as the national life expectancy,) and see if at half way through their lives, at whatever age that may have been, they displayed the behaviour that some people display at the point which is the traditional 'middle age', and see if the universe was trying to tell the rest of the world, and the person themselves something.