The prime time or peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming. It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season’s nightly programming.
Primetime television refers to the block of time when audience viewership peaks for programming during a defined period of time. In the United States, it is traditionally 8:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the evening, when most people are home from work and catching up with the news or their favorite shows.
In most Asian and Middle East countries, prime time consists of the programmes that are aired on TV between 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. local time. In India, prime time occurs between 19:00 and 22:00. Usually, programmes during prime time are domestic dramas, talent shows and reality shows.
Aging can be seen as unsettling and the prospect of retirement seem a scary aspect of life. Yet it doesn’t have to be so, for a wealth of scientific studies have found that youth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There are plenty of cases in which human beings peak well into middle and old age.
Teenagers, for instance, may have vitality on their side, but older people are generally more psychologically stable. And so it goes with several phenomena people experience as they age.
Here are some benefits across the spectrum of older years:
1. Your understanding of other people’s emotions peaks in your 40s and 50s. Scientists found a long plateau in people’s 40s and 50s when the ability to correctly identify emotions based only on the eyes was strongest.
2. Arithmetic skills peak at 50 Sure, you learned your times tables in elementary school — but it turns out 50-year-olds are best at answering arithmetic questions on the fly.
3. Life satisfaction peaks again at 69. After a dip in middle age, life satisfaction peaked again at about 69 years old. Even more intriguing, people over 60 had better life satisfaction than people 55 and up predicted they would feel five years down the line.
4. Vocabulary peaks in your late 60s or early 70s. It turns out people’s scores on multiple-choice vocabulary tests keep climbing into their late 60s and early 70s. And you don’t need to sit around reading the dictionary all day to make it happen.
5. Men and women feel best about their bodies after 70. In a Gallup survey, two-thirds of Americans over 65 said they always like the way they look. Men’s self-perception appears to peak in their early 80s, while women’s rates is a little below 70% when they hit about 74 years old.
6. People really do get wiser as they get older. It turns out life really is the best classroom. A team of psychologists and scientists analyzed and found found that the oldest group they studied — people who were between 60 and 90 — did better than other ages on almost every count.
7. Psychological well-being peaks at about 82. In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, scientists asked people to picture a 10-step ladder, with the best possible life on the top rung and the worst possible life on the bottom rung. The oldest group they studied (82- to 85-year-olds) gave the highest average rung number, about 7.
Most people dread the word retirement since it is an inevitable end to an active and often fruitful career. It is a setback for those whose identies are wrapped up in their work position or career rewards. It is a nightmare for those who income is totally contingent or dependent on their salary.
Retirement blues, post-retirement depression, etc are real for many, especially for those who haven’t built up the resources needed for this season of life and the strategies contingent to it.
Those who have spread themselves out a little more into social work or community service or hobby habits will only relish the opportunity and freedom to fully indulge and involve in them more than before.
Retirement actually gives more time for other activities such as community work, social involvement, charitable trusts, travel, learning new skills or even studying. Many make use of this time to enhance their overall know-how and personal improvement and grooming.
For sure, your health may not be at its peak and your vitality may have diminished. You may have to slow down and develop a more focused lifestyle for sustainability. Yet, without the trappings of hectic schedule, there is ample opportunity to expand, explore and experiment things, which you couldn’t due to commitments.
For many this may their best season of life as they pick up their laid-aside interests, oft-forgotten hobbies and longed-for aspirations. They are able to innovate without the burden and stress of failure. Free of a hectic schedule, they find time to travel, discover and renew relationships. Not being pressured to perform under the duress of a target can be highly rejuvenating and exhilarating. There is opportunity to impact without the fear of any repercussions or restrictions.
Thus, old age can become the prime time of life. It is a time when life is not being quantified and evaluated in terms of dollars and pounds, but in terms of quality and contentment of your being. It is a time to indulge in community involvement and personal growth. It is a time to relax and relish life, time to look back with thankfulness for making this far and looking forward to new endeavors.
A time to be able to sit and enjoy a sunrise, a sunset, a bird flying, a cloud passing, a flower blooming and a plant fading. A time to celebrate relationship and companionship for its a time without agenda or arrangement.
If you are a Prime Timer, you are not at the end of your age or life.
You are just beginning it!
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