Seven Ages of Man

Throughout life, people go through many stages. Life isn't long enough to considered as "long", yet normally isn't short enough to be considered "short". In normal people's lives, I think that it can be divided into the seven following stages: Birth, Student, Work, Marriage, Parenting, Retirement, and Death. The first and last one would be birth and death for sure. They mark the beginning and end of a person's life, from being given birth to earth till the day they leave the world, which is death. The second stage is being a student. This takes up a whole lot of a person's life. In life, people learn new things all the time, so this stage actually overlaps with all the other stages other than birth and death. The stage of working is after a student graduates and becomes an adult, having to learn to handle things themselves without having to have their parents backup everything for them. At this stage, they'll grow up and learn  how to earn money themselves and save themselves from being killed by the cruelty of reality. Marriage is the next stage. People in life will fall in love with someone and the majority of people get married. And of course, after marrying is to have a baby to have a feeling of a home. So, it then will be parenting. Retirement goes after parenting, even though it overlaps later on. When parenting a child, you would need income of course to raise the children. And later on, when the child went to the working stage of their lives too, the parents can retire and enjoy the rest of their life, waiting until the last stage, Death, comes.