On the other hand, to add an educational twist to this, if one accepts shakespeares "seven ages of man" poem as a good guide to longetivity, it could indicate as to which stage we are at!!! ... So according to the the result of the survey i knocked 26 years off my age .. so if shakespeare is right, then although my body is in the sixth stage, my mental state is that of the 3rd stage ...... the lover!!!
I'll take that
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For those not familiar with the poem .. here it is
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow.
Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.
And then the justice In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part.
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
