If you’re reading this and are middle aged (especially a man) you’re
depressed and don’t have any friends. That’s right, I’m talking to you and
so are big industries who capitalize on your sad state like pharma,
shrinks, and the tornado of advertisers who prey on your pleas for help. Us
middle-aged people are crying out for help, just like our babies who we put
in nursery rooms by themselves. By now, our kids have left, our marriage
may have left, and all the friends we used to have are on their own little
islands, suffering just like us. We’ve all over-declared our independence,
our society has built a super complex, reinforcing system around it. I’m
one of these poor souls, too: a middle aged guy with my wife as my best
friend, whose put everything I have into my family and most of those kids
are now adults who have moved on and left poor, old me feeling really
isolated and lonely.