Billy Crystal’s view on developmental psychology from the movie City Slickers (1991)

Value this time in your life, kids. ‘Cause this is the time in your life when you still have your choices.
It goes by so fast.
When you’re a teenager, you think you can do anything and you do.
Your twenties are a blur….
Thirties. You raise your family. You make a little money. And you think to yourself, “What happened to my twenties?”
Forties. You grow a little pot belly. You grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud.
One of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother.
Fifties. You have a minor surgery. You call it a “procedure.” But it’s a surgery.
Sixties. You’ll have a major surgery. The music is still loud, but it doesn’t matter, because you can’t hear it anyway.
Seventies. You and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale.
Start eating dinner at two o’clock in the afternoon. Get lunch around ten.
Breakfast, the night before. Spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, “How come the
kids don’t call? How come the kids don’t call?”
The eighties. You’ll have a major stroke. You end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but you call “Mama.”
Any questions?
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yes I have a question Billy how do I avoid this process????? ha ha I think Ive managed to so far… although I did have a procedure earlier this year …or was it surgery??

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