The people who research this kind of thing believe that half of the babies born in America in 2007 will live to be 104. Maybe that means we need to redefine traditional ways of looking at the stages of life, so today the New York Times took a reflective look at how man has defined his own life throughout the centuries.
This one is without a doubt my favorite, from A.A. Gill in the London Times, July 2009:
"I've often thought that Europe is an allegory for the ages of man. You're born Italian. They're relentlessly infantile and mother-obsessed. In childhood, we're English: chronically shy, tongue-tied, cliquey, and only happy when kicking balls, pulling the legs off something, or sending someone to Coventry. Teenagers are French: pretentiously philosophical, embarrassingly vain, ridiculously romantic and insincere. Then, in middle age we become either Swiss or Irish. Old age is German: ponderous, pompous, and pedantic. Then, finally, we regress into being Belgian, with no idea who we are at all."
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