"What age is most fun?" asksmarketing expert Faith Popcorn. "How about being stuck at six!" Withthese words futurist Popcorn highlights a trend she believes will dominate themidlife years of this generation. She calls it "Down Aging . . . a returnto a simpler time when we all giggled and played." Popcorn is right. LikePeter Pan, today's midlifers want to stay young forever. We miss the child weonce were.
You can be both an adult and a child. Onecan be childlike without becoming childish. And if your inner child is comatosefrom disuse, midlife is a good time to revive him or her.