What is Mid-life?
Mid-life is neither youth nor old age. It’s simultaneously the beginning of a new journey and a time of change and ambivalence, uncertainty and adjustment. In one moment we may feel youthful, willing to try a new trend for the fun of it, make use of an anti-aging procedure or start a new diet. In another moment we are facing the loss of parents or a partner and the reality of our mortality. Our focus is in living from the capabilities we have developed in earlier stages, seeing how we can be of service, developing skills and talents that satisfy us, putting more of our energy into our own personal ideals; we dare to engage in activities that make us feel generative. By mid life we increasingly pay more attention to our inner life, to personal qualities that can grow in and with us into future stages of life, regardless of the decline of the body. From this place we hold more love and concern for others in our hearts, find courage to hope for more than we’ve assumed possible, and forged
