Small Dog Has Midlife Crisis With New Power Wheels Car

Midlife Crises are strange things. We all kind of understand them but we also fear them and deride them. Mostly because people do things like buy fancy new cars in an attempt to make themselves feel younger. You know kind of like what the dog in this video is doing with his fancy new power wheels car. And it is one fancy looking power wheels car. I’m a little jealous. Hmm, maybe I’m having one of those crises desiring power wheels.

According to a couple of articles I read, midlife crises are a transition of identity and self-confidence. Usually this happens when people hit anywhere from 40 to 65. Generally, it is a crisis over one’s impending mortality, their age and a perceived lack of accomplishments. Did you know that the term has only been around since 1965 and was coined by Canadian psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques? Interestingly, there are some who believe that the midlife crisis is not a real thing and that adults do not actually experience it. I think they are wrong but I am also not a psychologist or done any studies at all about the subject.

Some research we found seemed to indicate that what is actually happening is that people in that 40 to 65 age range are all having set backs that many go through at those ages. These range from divorces and empty nest syndrome to retirement or loss of a job at that age. These are mostly transition events that people in their 20s and 30s don’t regularly go through. But hey, if the worst thing you do is buy a fancy power wheels car, how bad can it really be? Right?