How to make your middle years count

Begin to view your 40s and 50s as the start of a new innings

- Dr Satish Kumar C.R.

Midlife rarely announces itself with drama. It arrives quietly, threaded through work deadlines, family responsibilities and familiar routines. Somewhere in the forties or early fifties, many people begin to feel a low-grade unease—subtle enough not to derail daily life, yet persistent enough to invite questions. What is commonly labelled a midlife crisis is, in truth, a convergence of emotional, physical and social transitions that unfold gradually.