I battle that like crazy. For the most part, I love to work. When I finish working I love to play. A 10-year study sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, made public recently, found that for many, middle age is the most fulfilling time of life. Nine out of 10 of the 3,000 people surveyed in the study said they never experienced a mid-life crisis.
People live longer.
People don't think of themselves as old anymore. The media has a lot to do with middle-aged people's perceptions of themselves, Zinkus said. Just look at the commercials that target that age group. They're doing the same thing as teenagers at a different pace. Bodies change with age, but people really are as young as they want to be, mentally, Zinkus said.