"I bring this up because I seem to be in the middle of one, an inflection point that manifests in the number of times on the walk back from the school drop-off I stop to look at a bird in a tree, or a snail on a wall, or any number of other overwrought visual metaphors that allow me to feel momentarily like I'm inside a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins."
"I turned 50 at the end of November, which in any age prior to ours, would put me safely on the other side of a full-scale midlife crisis. But in an era in which 50-year-olds still dress precisely as they did 20 years ago as if they're about to commute to work via skateboard everything has been pushed back by a decade."
Stanford Medicine research in 2024 identifies two major biomolecular ageing spikes around ages 44 and 60. Emotional life often shows sharp inflection points in adolescence, the early 30s, and around fifty. External triggers such as children reaching new life stages and cultural cues can precipitate these transitions. Contemporary cultural delay has pushed traditional midlife markers later by roughly a decade. Transitional feelings commonly include a mild sadness framed as anticipation of future nostalgia and an intensified noticing of small details in everyday life. These moments act as brief, acute awareness of time passing rather than steady decline.
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