"What age is most fun?" asks marketing expert Faith Popcorn. "How about being stuck at six!" With these words futurist Popcorn highlights a trend she believes will dominate the midlife years of this generation. She calls it "Down Aging . . . a return to a simpler time when we all giggled and played." Popcorn is right. Like Peter Pan, today's midlifers want to stay young forever. We miss the child we once were.

“哪個年紀最有意思?”市場營銷專家菲斯?珀普康恩問道?！耙恢蓖Ａ粼诹鶜q怎么樣?” 珀普康恩是一位未來主義者，她通過上面這一番話引出了一個新的潮流，她認為這個潮流將會主導我們這代人的中年生涯。她管這個潮流叫做down aging(暫譯為“找回童真”)，指回到我們曾經(jīng)歡笑和玩耍的那個單純年代。珀普康恩是對的。如今的中年人們都像彼得潘一樣想要永遠保持年輕。我們都很懷念自己從前的樣子。

You can be both an adult and a child. One can be childlike without becoming childish. And if your inner child is comatose from disuse, midlife is a good time to revive him or her.

你可以有成人和兒童雙重身份。你可以像孩子那樣生活，同時又不讓自己顯得很幼稚。如果你內(nèi)心深處的那個天真孩童因為太久無人搭理而處于昏睡狀態(tài)，中年時光是將他們喚醒的一個好時候。

Following are some tips.

以下是一些可以幫你找回童真的建議：

Enjoy the simple pleasures.

享受單純的快樂。

Take time for play.

找些時間恣意玩耍。

Laugh again.

重展笑顏。

Recover childlike wonder.

拾回兒時的那份好奇心。

View life as an adventure.

把生命看作一次探險。