Down Aging
Marketing expert and futurist Faith Popcorn asks, "What age is most fun? How about being stuck at six!" She highlights a trend she calls "Down Aging"—a return to a simpler time of giggling and play. Like Peter Pan, today's midlifers want to stay young forever, missing the children they once were.
You can be both an adult and a child. One can be childlike without becoming childish. If your inner child is comatose from disuse, midlife is a good time for revival.