Nobody Hands You a Manual for Any of These Decades

An instruction manual lying open, the kind that comes with something you have to learn to use.

They call your 20s the formative years. Your 30s and 40s, the building years. Then the labels run out.

There's no label for what comes after. You get a number instead, and the number tells you almost nothing about the people standing next to you.

Start at the far end Your 80s, your 90s, and if you're lucky, your 100th