I have often thought about this question: why in our time do many men begin to experience a midlife crisis so early, and many people seek salvation for themselves in foreign religions: Tao, Buddhism, Jehovah, etc. ?What is really happening to people? After all, if we consider this issue a little deeper, then in China, not a single Chinese will believe in our Jesus Christ, and not a single Muslim who professes faith in Allah, according to the Koran, will erect a statue of the ancient Slavic Dazhbog or Perun in his home, every week by sacrificing a slaughtered rooster to him? Now imagine for a moment a respectable male businessman who has everything for a normal life, but this businessman believes, having accepted the faith of the Tao, that the woman in his life is just a tool for feeding internal energy, he eats only with Chinese chopsticks, melts butter for 40 minutes, turning him, probably, already into a “solidol”, and he asks his friend, who is leaving for Agnlia, to bring him a special cap with... a bomb! And he is already 45 years old... Various kinds of talismans, There are not enough Tao amulets for this man, all that remains is to dress him up in a Scottish skirt and white knee socks... Is that funny? Me too, but there are more questions than laughter... But it is also known that Hitler himself was a supporter of the Chinese Tao religion, visiting monks in Tibet more than once. Such men who came to Tao are very often irritable, despotic, selfish, trying to impose their opinions on other people... Or consider now the moment when people come to a religion like Buddhism. Freedom of thoughts and actions. Internal search for harmony within oneself, Complete freedom in sexual terms, where nothing can be called sin or anything else, bringing with it any “taboos” and “conditions”, the favorite state is loneliness, attempts to meditate, self-hypnosis to complete balance, without any extraneous emotions of anger or joy, attempts to break your own or someone else’s pride, well, etc. Yes, such men in communication with us are at first kind, attentive, helpful, they will gladly help you by fulfilling any request or small whim, but at this stage we will be able to observe other aspects of the psychology of men who believe in the Supreme Powers: they are completely deprived romanticism, everything is built “logically and consistently”, for any “addiction” or “attachment” - they are “punished” with a cold and impersonal attitude, they try to persuade someone to their “correct” beliefs, to teach someone something, me, for example, I can’t understand how a married Buddhist man, who has lost the freshness of his relationship with his wife, can advise her to have a lover as soon as possible, without experiencing the slightest ounce of jealousy?! How can you advise your childhood friend (a loser in life, who at 45 years old cannot get married...) to study more often... (forgive me, gentlemen, for the quote: "... The best way out for you is this masturbation!"? Any disobedience, stubbornness in defending one's independent rights - in dealing with such people is also severely "punished: they "wash their hands", posing as impersonal and cold, angry "teachers"... Well, what if you have family and personal problems - this is how a Buddhist man will advise you to engage in sublimation, abstracting from your own problems... Or they will advise you to quickly meet someone via the Internet, and, “blindfolded with a black scarf”, leave somewhere in Israel, in Austria, to some old man who will be glad to see you, and you, if you are a lonely woman at heart with health problems, should slavishly humbly thank the old man for the roof over your head, for his consent live with you...So what is really happening to our men in our 21st century, my friends? Give one a hat with a bombshell and a Scottish skirt with white knee socks, who is sitting behind the wheel of a Nissan, while the other strives for complete harmony within himself, imagining himself a pragmatic “teacher” of Buddhism, punishing for any“disobedience” - morally and psychologically? So what is it: MIDDLE-AGE CRISIS or MADNESS? MIDDLE-AGE CRISIS No. 2 “Finally, it became clear to me what a midlife crisis in men is! And this is precisely the time when a man begins to approach the milestone, and the relationship with his wife no longer pleases the soul. So what? Nothing! It is quite possible for a young girl to play the role of a “prince,” she will not know about his shortcomings, his weaknesses, and when something is wrong, when he simply gets bored with this “role,” he will again return to his wife, in front of whom You don’t have to be irresistible. You can easily go unshaven for three days; you can stare at the monitor, and, clasping the keyboard with your hands, “scour” the Internet, “making fun” on some site with a new girl, sitting in front of the computer in shorts and swallowing liters of coffee, trying to beat 24 hours a day; you can lift your feet to the ceiling and listen to Turkish radio on the unlimited Internet, while simultaneously downloading and listening to Zadornov; you can walk around in a dirty T-shirt and torn socks for two weeks; you can again pretend to be “Romeo” in front of someone, until your wife appears from another room in the middle of the night, like a ghost, for her “eternal debt” for an hour like 3 am, and then... You must immediately close the Opera program, hide all sites, cut off the chatter of Turkish radio and Zadornov’s monologues, rushing headlong towards the “legal soul mate”, who will insatiably proclaim her “I WANT!” If her “I WANT!” is not fulfilled, and she is the financial and only source, you can immediately lose your home over your head, food and pillows, then there won’t be anywhere to fart!!! You can easily not wash your hair for three days; you can go to bed every day wearing the same old stretched cotton nightie, knowing full well that your husband hates it, explaining that it is warm and cozy in it, “but in that black silk set it is cold”; you can watch “House” until one in the morning (eating chocolates and complaining every time “How I’ve gained weight!”) and when mentioning “marital duty”, cut short - “I want to sleep”, knowing full well that if it is not fulfilled, “I WANT!” , and he is financial and the only source of existence, you can... not lose anything, because where can he get away from two children, he was not brought up like that!; if your husband is completely fed up with his harassment, sigh heavily, lie on your side, kick your ass, hiss: “you have five minutes for everything...” and continue reading a book, watching TV, etc...; you can throw fabulous tantrums twice a month and instead of apologizing, tell how difficult it is for her to have PreMS and PostMS... You can easily not wash your hair for three days; maybe... There won’t be a second “maybe”, because after the first there was a compelling enough reason to shoot her!!! “What does a woman look like during a midlife crisis?”... She, tied with her great-great-great-grandmother’s down scarf, sits in in a chair for hours, guessing at cards; smokes cigarettes for days - pack after pack; with interest he looks through the latest newspapers with advertisements for marriage dating, and with fear measures his waist and chest, trying to fit the “parameters”, because in the advertisement (oh, Lord...), it is written: “I am looking for a woman, middle-aged, with blue hair.” eyes, no children, slim, but MUST have size 7 breasts. Other options are not considered. About myself: I was married (3 times), I pay alimony, I live with a neighbor, I will come to a meeting with a bouquet of wormwood: I recognize only NATURALITY. "; A middle-aged woman stares at young guys, she has beautiful dreams, but you can also not wash your hair for a week, discuss the merits of the powerful of our planet with a cat, because... a friend fled to the USA a long time ago (she married a millionaire, a traitor, having taken away the password from her profile on a dating site, and also a middle-aged woman, having met through an advertisement with some peasant who, instead of wine, gave her carrot juice to drink - after 1.5 hours he will hear his voice on his mobile phone: “Darling, you know, we’ve been banging away for 3 hours, but now, if I saw your face, I wouldn’t even recognize you...”. ..Can!"