Posted: 28 May 2007 at 10:37am | IP Logged | 9
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John Byrne
I have noticed, over the past couple of decades, that people seem to behave in ways that I would normally associate with people about ten years younger than they are. My step-daughter, for instance, is in her mid-thirties, yet she reminds me of myself and my friends when we were in college, in our twenties. So does the thirty-something daughter of a friend (who is herself in her sixties, but seems much younger). Another friend has a daughter who just graduated university, and will be 22 in a month or so, yet she and her contemporaries remind me of what I remember of the other kids in high school.
Haven't your heard? 40 is the new 30.
Part of the living longer thing healthier, I guess. We're probably going to see mandatory retirement being pushed to 70 and 75 in 15 years or so.
Probably mean a lot of geezers hitting the schoolbooks to "recycle" themselves.
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