Elvish :How do you explain "Life" ?
Tolkien : Mmmm I would imagine it to be like a pizza pie
Elvish : I LOVE PIZZA!! No wonder I love life !!
Tolkien : So imagine ,life is slices of a pizza .The first 5 years we learn who our parents are,to eat ,drink and move .The next ten years or so we learn to read,write,go to school and discover things so we can decide who we want to be
Elvish : Then we become who we discovered we want to be ?
Tolkien : Well kinda sorta .We think we do...we go to college and get a job etc etc in the next 15 years
Elvish : Then we are all set ?
Tolkien : Well ,then we figure out we discovered it all wrong and try to rediscover ourselves for the next 10 years
Elvish : Then ?
Tolkien : Then you are 40 and then life begins .I think that's what the old saying means