The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.