... world. More choices and commitments are made and life becomes more structured. Here it might be conceivable to start thinking about and/or starting a family and setting up a home. The individual will settle a few key choices and find a position in the adult world to grow comfortably and happily contributing to aspects of personal, home and working life. The later stage of this phase has been called BOOM - becoming one's own man. BOOM is completed and individuals are wiser and more experienced in the next stage. However, the sense of passing time and one's own life become more illustrated in this transition, which is into midlife. Physical signs of ageing appear more obvious and deaths of older relatives arise. Initial dreams and plans may or may not be realized and for some this can be a period of midlife crisis, in which to avoid disappointment, changes are made. ...

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