Counting the years is such an unsatisfactory way of measuring age in humans. It may be helpful in thinking about cars or houses but people are far too complex for such a simple system.

People grow in many different ways physical, mental, emotional, spiritual - and what James Hillman refers to as character - and each one of these needs a completely different scale. Instead of doing this we measure them all in years and then describe individuals as being either above or below the average as if that had any meaning. This fails to take into account the fact that we all grow at different rates

Thinking about Ageing

In thinking more about age it can help to have knowledge and understanding of the following: