do not take me otherwise but i yawned half way through the article, cuz i guess i predicted what was coming, ideally i won't call it mid life crisis, crisis is something when you do not have it or can't afford, its more of a boredom creeping in. Well there is one thing i always believed in "when you are 21 you think ok, i have seen 20 yrs of my life and learned from them, but when you are 25 and look back, you feel things have changed or may be not, there is no end to maturity or learning" may be most of us in India learn to ride too early for boredom to creep in, most of us cannot afford luxury of being in Debts to buy high performance machines, and miss good roads to try adventure.
I bought FZ 16 this year and have completed 2k kms in 6 months and in college i did those in 1.5 months on my pulsar v1, may be cuz i moved to a more comfortable way of living with rise in income, moving to a car or taking flights to travel even short distances, rather hitting jaipur on my bike. Passion wears out with time until you are reaping something out of it or may be thats the way we perceive it.
If you can still woo girls, make a living out of it, you will not feel monotonous riding a bike. There is a self exploration and Self realization, i believe you reached the latter and i think its better.
Do not mind starting of my para but sometimes i feel i can post loath of heavy words and make it approved for hard torque, well yours was better as it connected well as it progressed.
Also i wanted to add in country like ours even if you ride an intruder or R1 on lookers are only on road, but remember if you travel to a hotel or mall or any other place car gets more value, even if you ride the costliest bike it is quietly ignored in 2 wheeler parking.
I agree with Renny also because all of our dad's are adventurous at our ages, my dad rode from Java to Yezdi to Enfield all the bikes at his age, but after 40 yrs his suggestion of buying a car makes more sense cuz he has loads of experience behind it, atleast more than us, with highest road accident prone country a car makes more sense including safety, and loading. Also remember in our country taxi's are 2 wheelers are stopped most by cops.
Its ok to get bored, only then you will try news things, if there were no cravings a newer recipe would never be invented