I’ve been noticing a curious thing: Every year, there are more younger people.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure where they all come from. Perhaps there is a factory somewhere that manufactures younger people. While I wouldn’t rule this out as an explanation, I would find it surprising, given that the United States long ago outsourced its manufacturing industry to other parts of the world.<\/p>\n
Even more mysterious is another phenomenon I’ve been noticing: Every year, there are fewer older people.<\/p>\n
Now, I am not one to go in for conspiracy theories, but I cannot help thinking there may be some connection here. Could it be that there is some strange mechanism at work, which “converts” older people to younger people?<\/p>\n
Perhaps they go into a kind of machine, like some sort of retrochronomic tanning salon. An older person makes an appointment, sits there and reads a magazine for a few hours, maybe on their lunch break, and Voila!<\/i> a younger person comes out.<\/p>\n
None of this really disturbs me. After all, the one reliable thing I have noticed as the years go by, is that I myself remain completely unchanged.<\/p>\n
It is good to have at least one thing you can rely on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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