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the trapdoor where you start enjoying naps you once fought tooth and nail
means the period of life between youth and old age, roughly from the mid-forties to mid-sixties, when one is established but no longer young.
from A transparent compound of "middle" and "age," both rooted in Old English ("middel" and "ǣ"/"age" via Old French "aage" from Latin "aetas"). The phrase has named the central stretch of human life for centuries — distinct from the "Middle Ages," the historical era between antiquity and the modern world, though both lean on the same idea of something caught comfortably in the middle.
- silent comeback
- Hearing loss often begins decades before you notice
- happiness dip
- Life satisfaction bottoms out near age 47 globally
- crisis myth
- Most people never have a midlife crisis
- peak earning
- Income usually crests in your fifties
- new neurons
- Brains keep forming cells well past forty
medieval period — approximately 5th to 15th centuries in europe between the fall of rome and the renaissance
feudal system — dominant social structure in medieval europe with lords, vassals, and serfs from roughly 500-1500 ce