So here’s how it goes.

This is probably the best way to “manage” your life….you can break it up into 18 year segments.

The first 18 years of your life, you don’t have much choice in what you’re doing, as you are a minor. Parents, school, etc. dominate your life. The next 18 years of your life (19-36) you should take as your own. Do as you wish. Travel. Take part in activities that you’ve always dreamed of. Have sex with as many people as you deem necessary. The next 18 years (37-54), devote to your family. Get married, have a kid. If you time this correctly, you’ll find someone and get married in your mid 30s, then have a child (or two, whatever the hell you want) by the time you are 37. This segues into the next phase nicely: The next 18 years (55-72) are once again “yours”. Travel. Spend money. Do whatever the hell you want, you’re “retired.” Relax. Your child will become and adult. You can decide if the whole “marriage and family thing” is right for you….if not, then fuck it. Throw it away. You’ve got 18 years that are all your own to do as you wish.

By the end of this time period (73 years old) you’re probably running out of health and money, so then you can just do whatever. You’ll probably be dying sometime soon anyway, if you’ve done as instructed and had a full 36 years (half your life) to do as you wish.

So to sum up:

Years 0-18: Not yours
Years 19-36: Yours!
Years 37-54: Not yours
Years 55-72: Yours!

I wish you would've summed it up before I bothered to read it.

first rule of middle school/high school/college: read the first and last sentences of each paragraph....the rest is just filler.

who was it that said " the first 18 years of your life your parent's take care of you, and the last 18 years of your life the government takes care of you, so you got all that time in between in fend for yourself" ...something like that.

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probably FDR.....

haha....j/k...obviously, FDR thought that the government should take care of you each and every day of your life.

This is the most important thing ever posted on this site.

And, likewise, it will be ignored.

unfortunately, you are correct. this brilliant theorem will go to waste, on the young impressionable minds here.....

What the fuck? This is clearly borderline parody masquerading as formulaic simplicity. It's a piece of shit.

I'm not a family guy. I'm probably happier moving to the city/country for the rest of my life and not doing shit. My whole life is mine.

BTW, you're not magically set free unto the world once you turn 18. And I won't be checking my alarm clock when I'm thirty-seven and saying, "Ohp! Time to fill a womb and get a motherfucking house!"

The person who wrote this obviously closed many things off.

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We're not at college, and you're definitely not a lecturer, unless the world has seriously lost it.

Anyway, this would surely suggest two things:

0-18: Make your parents' life a living hell until they kick you out.
37-54: Shirk your parental responsibilities as much as is humanly possible.

How is it "important"? It doesn't say anything that hasn't been said before, and offers nothing but a statement with no suggestion of how to proceed, or even whether the situation is good or bad.

Seriously, if you can explain how that particular post offers anything approaching "the most important ever posted on this site", I'd like to know.

And you're wrong: it's not being ignored. It may be disagreed with, but that's hardly the same thing, is it.

Broadly, it's fairly right-on, notwithstanding such things as relationship/marital trouble, money trouble and other predicaments that like to pop up thoughout someone's life.

The only real disagreement I have is with the 55-onwards supposed freedom and retirement. If someone spends their days from 18-36 pissing their time and money up the wall (even if they're having the most awesome time), and only thereafter starts investing and stashing away in a pension for the following 18 years, chances are they wont be in a position to retire and live it up at 55. A person needs to have some focus and sensibility during those first 18 years of freedom. And it's probably high time I took my own advice and got myself a pension, but hey. Holidays/travelling/fun are a priority, somehow. This is why I'll probably be retiring at 65 like the majority of the UK.

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Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

This is perfect.

And personal choice, higher education, illness, work, wages, culture or the actual technicalites or having and raising a family.

So it's basically fairly right-on except for being a pile of shite.

Things don't work out exactly as planned all the time, which is why something like this doesn't seem all that workable. And I'm sure enough people have led enjoyable lives that don't fit into that theory of 18 year increments of work and play. But, broadly, it has the right idea provided a person is in the right circumstances. Not everybody is. And not everybody wants to wait until they're 55 to be free of their responsibilities to their children, so the personal choice to have kids while young might be attractive to some, with no element of regret in 'losing their lifestyle' early on.

You mention higher education, work and wages there, which also kinda fits into my disagreement with the concept. A person has to be reasonably sensible to get somewhere with higher education, to hold down a job and get themselves into the position where they can earn good wages (in addition to the pension/investment point I raised before). All of that is somewhat at odds with the idea of living it up from 18-36, and without those things a person might not be in the position to have that second period of living it up later in life.

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Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

how so?

cool. that sounds like fun.

you are an adult. your decisions are your own. do as you wish.

how so?

1. It's too vague to pinpoint as the course of a normal human life.

2. They just... did. They didn't take into account people who don't breed, impotency, accidents, mental diseases, human choice. It's too formulaic and rigid.

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Interestingly, this echos kipling, from one of the jungle book stories. the miracle of purun bagat:

He had been, as the Old Law recommends, twenty years a youth, twenty years a fighter,—though he had never carried a weapon in his life,—and twenty years head of a household. He had used his wealth and his power for what he knew both to be worth; he had taken honour when it came his way; he had seen men and cities far and near, and men and cities had stood up and honoured him. Now he would let those things go, as a man drops the cloak he no longer needs.


It just took a while to remember where it was. Except kipling called it 20 year cycles.

now i know why the world sucks
thank you this has been a truly enlightening experience
as always!

Not really any more than when you're a child. You are given a choice of options, and if you pick the wrong one you may be punished as a result. A child decides whether to behave itself, whether to stay in school, etc. The system they live under may punish them, they may decide that punishment is worth it and continue to pursue that decision. The same applies in adult life.