How to live to 122
Two years into retirement, Emerald, 62, is researching the secrets of longevity and was amazed to learn that the world's oldest person whose date of birth could be verified – Jeanne Louise Calment (pictured) -- died at 122 and was a smoker!"Will I live to 122?” wonders Emerald. "Well, I'm halfway there already and it's amazing that the whole world is telling me I'm too old to be a useful member of the workforce, I'm too old to be in the same breathing space as the young things and should lock myself away until the undertakers come.”
"When more of us do live to 122 then the young things will have to reconsider what middle-age is, won’t they?"
"When most people died at the biblically appointed time – three score years and ten – middle age was 35," says Emerald. "It's been pushed up to 40 and then 50 over the years, but it's going to take a whole generation of Jeanne Louise Calments to make them shift middle age to 60."
"My generation could very well be that magic generation," says Emerald, "and especially so if more of us had the guts to tell the young things to go get stuffed when they tell us to stop smoking, stop eating fatty foods, stop doing this and stop doing that!"
"On a cynical note, maybe all this prohibition on the things we like doing is a clever ploy by the young things to stress us to death and ensure that we never reach 70 let alone 100 or 122?"
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