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They need to do a study to determine whether there is a relationship between age and the degree to which people are interesting. There are studies concerning health and fast foods, smoking and cancer, and whether religious or non-religious people are more fulfilled sexually. It's about time someone undertook a study to see what relationship there is between age and how interesting people are.

Personally I think that if mathematicians did a study, they would find that the time period in which people are most interesting would be somewhere between the ages of thirty and fifty. This is what employers seem to think. This is also the time in which most individuals are fully baked without starting to dry or wither up. If graphs could be produced, we'd probably find that the peek of interest for most people would be somewhere in that range.

I think I hit my peek somewhere around the age of forty. My most interesting and exciting years started at about age thirty and so by age forty I had some interesting stories to tell. After that things plateaued and so the stories started to repeat themselves. By the time I hit seventy I figure that I'll probably sound like a broken record.

Now one would think that the older people got, the more life experience they would have, hence the more interesting they would become over time. But in fact it seems that the older people get, the less interesting they become because they're less up to do interesting things. On top of this, the older people get the less younger people want to hear from them. Those who are more affluent can sometimes use family fortunes as a carrot to keep themselves interesting for longer periods of time. But this is artificial and would probably show up on a graph as an anomaly. In any event, it would be interesting to see where the intersection point would be if one were to merge the two graphs showing age and degree of interest over time.

What triggered interest in this topic in the first place was rating articles on Helium.com. I was asked to compare different articles dealing with writers' block and the way in which authors dealt with it. Not that I have it, but sometimes I wonder when I'll run out of interesting things to say or interesting ways in which to say them. I don't want to dwell on it too much because I fear getting nightmares of sinking in quicksand or shriveling up on a beach. Still, I can't help wonder sometimes how I'll keep coming up with new ideas to keep people's interest. It's not just a livelihood issue, it also has something to do with ego and that "self-actualization" concept.

Maybe some day I'll experience a comeback and skew the graph, but until that happens I suspect I'll have to stick to my original findings. Forty is where I peeked, and so I'll just have to figure out a way to keep reinventing myself to stay interesting. Mathematically, I think the odds are against me, but until someone finally does that conclusive study, I'll keep fighting.

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