Age as an issue is one big fat oxymoronic mess…because you can’t come to any one conclusion about age. You can’t take any one position: not in employment, not in political picks, not in your own expectations about when you’ll hit your stride, when you’re in your prime and which phases of life will be a slog or a cakewalk. You have to size up the particular person or circumstances. You have to be awake to individuality and alert to subtlety.