JohnDB
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So
Looking at average lifespans...
Your average healthy person, without special conditions, will live to be around a 90-something. A few will make it past the century mark...but most likely most won't.
Like I said....I'm talking about average individuals.
If there are some kind of health concerns... like pulmonary (lungs) or cardiovascular (heart or vessels) or endocrine (diabetes or hypoglycemia) then the length of the lifespans shortens drastically. Even though medicine can greatly lengthen lifespan...it still will lead to a shorter life than not having these ailments.
Guys enter the workforce usually as soon as they possibly can...but usually only part-time. So even if they aren't in career positions yet we can use an aggregate age of 20...then they usually will retire by age 72. (Earlier if possible)
Meaning that they have 52 years of income.
By age 50 they usually are around their peak performance and income range....both experience and expertise playing roles in this portion of their career. But as we all well know...at this point brain function and creativity begin to fall off.
It's downhill from here. Learning how to rely on talented others is a needed skill at this point if you wish to further career paths and continue to climb up the ladder. Otherwise you will slide down (career wise) to become a greeter at Walmart. Younger and cheaper college kids desperately in debt from school loans will otherwise take your skilled profession away from you and possibly become your boss. (Happens more often than not)
Physically speaking...
If those hangovers in your 30's didn't teach you anything...they most certainly did when you hit your 40's...and now in your 50's you don't even want to visit that feeling....you feel rough enough from an evening where you stepped outside of your diet plan and ate some fast food. You take forever to get over small bumps and bruises and sore muscles.... working out isn't as effective as it once was. And that "random" grey hair has gotten away from you and infected half your head...if they haven't fallen out by this point.
Women started out in their 20's looking young and beautiful... luxurious hair and bright eyed....but children and careers and stress from trying to do everything has shifted to periomenopausal to full menopause. Those hips and chest will never be the same again. Those laugh lines are here to stay and your wonderful hair?...bad hair days are the norm and not the exception.
Also the years of stress and hormonal fluctuations have left you one step away from the psychiatrists...mood elevators don't sound so bad anymore. Taking a vacation from emotions sounds better than a trip to an exotic location because of all the extra work it would require. But dealing with a wacko psychiatrist sounds very exhausting....and so you don't go.
But you have been at this for so long....that when the day comes your 30-something child tells you they are moving out...and they do. You feel depressed like they died one minute and angry they abandoned you the next...and you begin to revisit the notion of either mood elevators or home replacement therapy again. Maybe you can adopt someone else's disenfranchised teen....you live in hope of grandkids... maybe even sabotaging your child's birth control...NM.
And yet....
Somehow you firmly believe that you are a direct relative of Peter Pan....you are still young....you ain't old yet....
Looking at average lifespans...
Your average healthy person, without special conditions, will live to be around a 90-something. A few will make it past the century mark...but most likely most won't.
Like I said....I'm talking about average individuals.
If there are some kind of health concerns... like pulmonary (lungs) or cardiovascular (heart or vessels) or endocrine (diabetes or hypoglycemia) then the length of the lifespans shortens drastically. Even though medicine can greatly lengthen lifespan...it still will lead to a shorter life than not having these ailments.
Guys enter the workforce usually as soon as they possibly can...but usually only part-time. So even if they aren't in career positions yet we can use an aggregate age of 20...then they usually will retire by age 72. (Earlier if possible)
Meaning that they have 52 years of income.
By age 50 they usually are around their peak performance and income range....both experience and expertise playing roles in this portion of their career. But as we all well know...at this point brain function and creativity begin to fall off.
It's downhill from here. Learning how to rely on talented others is a needed skill at this point if you wish to further career paths and continue to climb up the ladder. Otherwise you will slide down (career wise) to become a greeter at Walmart. Younger and cheaper college kids desperately in debt from school loans will otherwise take your skilled profession away from you and possibly become your boss. (Happens more often than not)
Physically speaking...
If those hangovers in your 30's didn't teach you anything...they most certainly did when you hit your 40's...and now in your 50's you don't even want to visit that feeling....you feel rough enough from an evening where you stepped outside of your diet plan and ate some fast food. You take forever to get over small bumps and bruises and sore muscles.... working out isn't as effective as it once was. And that "random" grey hair has gotten away from you and infected half your head...if they haven't fallen out by this point.
Women started out in their 20's looking young and beautiful... luxurious hair and bright eyed....but children and careers and stress from trying to do everything has shifted to periomenopausal to full menopause. Those hips and chest will never be the same again. Those laugh lines are here to stay and your wonderful hair?...bad hair days are the norm and not the exception.
Also the years of stress and hormonal fluctuations have left you one step away from the psychiatrists...mood elevators don't sound so bad anymore. Taking a vacation from emotions sounds better than a trip to an exotic location because of all the extra work it would require. But dealing with a wacko psychiatrist sounds very exhausting....and so you don't go.
But you have been at this for so long....that when the day comes your 30-something child tells you they are moving out...and they do. You feel depressed like they died one minute and angry they abandoned you the next...and you begin to revisit the notion of either mood elevators or home replacement therapy again. Maybe you can adopt someone else's disenfranchised teen....you live in hope of grandkids... maybe even sabotaging your child's birth control...NM.
And yet....
Somehow you firmly believe that you are a direct relative of Peter Pan....you are still young....you ain't old yet....
Oh yeah,.. I forgot. Man,.. I am so going to get my butt virtually smacked by you at some point today between this and the donkey jokes that I made in other topics. 
(I also really like Ellie. 