Article by Ceri Wheeldon
I was at an event earlier this week, talking with a group of people about Midlife and the Midlife MOT programme. The conversation was positive, upbeat, and mostly a dialogue about taking stock of our lives today, planning for the future, living life to the full, etc etc. But then one lady voiced her concerns about the term ‘Mid-life’. She stated that she was 54, and still felt 18, and would take exception to anyone suggesting that she was ‘midlife’. In fact she was extremely vocal.
Somebody else in the group pointed out that they did not consider the term ‘mid-life’ as negative at all, but did consider it to be descriptive of a stage of life....