Yeah, it makes sense when you think about it, I’ve always thought it was interesting to see the actual numbers. It’s important information for people to have as they plan for retirement and such. If you make it to your 50’s and you’re healthy, you’re probably going to live waaay longer than you would’ve been expected to at birth and should plan accordingly.
The difference in life expectancy at birth and life expectancy as we aged used to be much more significant. A historian looked at tombstone epigraphs from Ancient Rome and calculated the average life expectancy of all humans at birth to be 25 years…but for those still alive at 25 years old, their average life expectancy was 53. The average 25 year old actually lived longer than the average newborn baby. So many dead babies…as recently as 1800, 43% of people didn’t live past age five.
I’m still mid 30’s, though the late 30’s are rapidly approaching. That’s why I was saying there should probably be another category between young adult and idled aged, or at least a few transition years, since neither term really accurately describes where I am in my life. I also don’t really have a generation, I’m either a really young Gen X or a really old millennial. It is what it is. As far as perspectives changing, that already happened for me - both of my parents and all of my grandparents were gone before I hit 30 and I never even met any of my great grandparents. Now two siblings are gone and I only have one uncle left.
Those are solid categories…planning could also be called teaching, those are typical grandparent years for many. That’s the category I think of when I think of middle aged.
Sorry to hear you've lost so many people in your life at such a young age. I've always thought 40s was young to lose parents and siblings.
Unless you were born really late. I have a Tia (aunt) that is almost 20 years younger than my mom. She's actually close to my age. She's more like you. Lost everybody really young.
I agree with the teaching comment however that's a harder line to draw. I'm not even sure I like the learning category title. To me we are always learning and teaching. They both overlap categories. Siblings taught me a lot at a very young age, as well as my parents as they were dying.
Good example are parents age 15 to death are learning from their children and yet teaching the whole time as well.
I think the titles are more used to indicate a main purpose or agenda for that period of life. Then I think learning and planning work.
Okay for the record is 34 middle aged?
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Yeah, it makes sense when you think about it, I’ve always thought it was interesting to see the actual numbers. It’s important information for people to have as they plan for retirement and such. If you make it to your 50’s and you’re healthy, you’re probably going to live waaay longer than you would’ve been expected to at birth and should plan accordingly.
The difference in life expectancy at birth and life expectancy as we aged used to be much more significant. A historian looked at tombstone epigraphs from Ancient Rome and calculated the average life expectancy of all humans at birth to be 25 years…but for those still alive at 25 years old, their average life expectancy was 53. The average 25 year old actually lived longer than the average newborn baby. So many dead babies…as recently as 1800, 43% of people didn’t live past age five.
I’m still mid 30’s, though the late 30’s are rapidly approaching. That’s why I was saying there should probably be another category between young adult and idled aged, or at least a few transition years, since neither term really accurately describes where I am in my life. I also don’t really have a generation, I’m either a really young Gen X or a really old millennial. It is what it is. As far as perspectives changing, that already happened for me - both of my parents and all of my grandparents were gone before I hit 30 and I never even met any of my great grandparents. Now two siblings are gone and I only have one uncle left.
Those are solid categories…planning could also be called teaching, those are typical grandparent years for many. That’s the category I think of when I think of middle aged.
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Sorry to hear you've lost so many people in your life at such a young age. I've always thought 40s was young to lose parents and siblings.
Unless you were born really late. I have a Tia (aunt) that is almost 20 years younger than my mom. She's actually close to my age. She's more like you. Lost everybody really young.
I agree with the teaching comment however that's a harder line to draw. I'm not even sure I like the learning category title. To me we are always learning and teaching. They both overlap categories. Siblings taught me a lot at a very young age, as well as my parents as they were dying.
Good example are parents age 15 to death are learning from their children and yet teaching the whole time as well.
I think the titles are more used to indicate a main purpose or agenda for that period of life. Then I think learning and planning work.
Who knows!