Age Is A Number

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Some of us are lucky to never grow up, some are forced to grow up way too quickly. The choices we make, and the things that happen to us determine our age, not the calendar. The phases we move through in life are up to us, and the calendar is a poor proxy.

I

• walk to school alone
• make a first friend
• get bullied

II

• travel to a foreign country
• go camping
• lose your virginity
• get a job
• graduate high school
• get bullied

III

• travel alone
• bury a pet
• buy a house
• pay taxes
• get fired from a job
• graduate university
• get high

IV

• lose your libido
• the kids move out
• win an award
• bury a parent
• live through a war or a pandemic

V

• have grandchildren
• bury a friend
• lose mobility or mental acuity

X - Bonus

• immigrate
• lose a limb
• suffer an illness
• lose your home
• start a business