Middlescence

Middlescence

"Sometimes the best begins in the middle."

"I'm too old to be young and too young to be old," lamented Kathy Bates in "Fried Green Tomatoes."

Enough youth to inspire and energize our dreams and enough age to give us the practical wisdom to live and enjoy these dreams- the best of both worlds-middle youth.

Welcome to Middlescence!

Middlescence is a combination of middle and adolescence.

middlescence noun. The turbulent, rebellious middle age of the baby boom generation.

"Most baby boomers don't feel fully 'grown up' until they are into their 40s. When our parents turned 50, we thought they were old! But today, women and men I've interviewed routinely feel they are five to 10 years younger than the age on their birth certificates. Fifty is what 40 used to be; 60 is what 50 used to be. Middle age has already been pushed far into the 50s — in fact, if you listen to boomers, there is no more middle age. So what's next?
Welcome to Middlescence. It's adolescence the second time around." —Gail Sheehy, "New passages," U.S. News & World Report, June 9, 1995

(http://www.wordspy.com/words/middlescence.asp)

However, this is a period in ones life which represents the search for a new identity. It is a strange urge to do something different in your career or life, which could provide the one thing we miss: satisfaction.

In middle age, the relative potencies of past, present, and future are altered as the individual increasingly directs effort to the process of reminiscence and recollection of the past, rather than anticipation of the future. If approached constructively, middle age can prepare an individual for a satisfying and productive old age.(Britanica encyclopaedia)

Here, I would like to collate the available information / literarure on Middlescence and also discuss issueses related to middlescence.

-Prashant Koli