Facebook in Midlife

When we reach 40 plus, we might experience an internal change that will have either a positive or negative outcome. Any crisis is an opportunity for growth. If a person has no outside interest, no career and nothing to fulfill dreams, he/she is in danger of going through a midlife crisis. For me, midlife is a positive time in my life. Reaching a certain age that ends with zero and counting the number of candles in our cake is not an indicator for entering the midlife transition. Though at forty is the beginning of midlife and stressful events, it can be denied but we cannot escaped it. This is also related to a joke circulating in the web that womens problem starts with Men, its up for you to agree or disagree.


It’s good that there’s Facebook that makes me busy and ease boredoms. It helps me for a while to forget the many symptoms women experience at my age. It’s the most popular social network available on the internet right now and millions of users worldwide uses this service to connect to family and friends. It also have many available applications and games which you can play and use completely for free. I don’t need at all the plasters, menopause cream, hormonal pills and the regular visit to doctors, what I need is a computer and a password. Everybody young and old are benefited from this new technology.



Midlife is a new beginning, a chance to start over, a time to pursue your dreams and a time to enjoy being a farmer in Farmville and a builder of your own city.



And the everyday conversations nows goes like this...

Dirk: How's your farm, did you buy the tractor?
ME : No, i want to plow and harvest manually besides i'm saving
my money to buy a farmhouse

BFF Joy: Why are you in a hurry to go home, you don't have any kid
waiting?
ME : My farm is waiting for me, i still have to harvest my
squash and rice and buy new seeds
BFF Joy: Is the market still open? (she's not a facebook user)

And the telephone conversation with my grandson...

ME : Hello Kim, what's your level now in farmville? (instead of asking
him his achievement from the schoolyear that just ended)
KIM : Mama Lola, i am now in Level 40 and you?
ME : Level 20 (OMG, my grandchildren are better than me)