the Laughing Boomer

Lots of people have written about life phases.  These are the typical evolutionary stages of maturity that every human being goes through.  They are loosely connected with age, although there is a wide variation of ages.  For example, most of us know about the individuation of children from parents on their route to independent adulthood. 

Most people go through this phase in their late teens and early twenties, although we have all heard or know about some who were independent at sixteen, or some who seem to be not independent by age thirty.

  These days it seems to have evolved to a later age than I remember.  When we were eighteen, we expected to be responsible adults. Now in teaching in the post-secondary system, I see many young people in their early-to-mid twenties who have not made any serious life decisions. Nor have they worked yet, and are very comfortable staying in their parent's home.

 At any rate, the same applies at the other end of life.  However, retirement is more a phase than an age.

 More tomorrow.

 Mahara