In Chula Vista, the median age is roughly 36 years.
National City’s is the same, give or take a day or two here and there.
The South County residents are just a smidgen older than their 35-years-old counterparts in the city of San Diego, but on par with their county brethren, who collectively blow out 36 candles on their birthday cake.
Across the nation, the elder countrymen can swagger around with a mature wisdom given the country’s median age is reportedly 38.
However, as any teenager from here to Point Barrow, Alaska will tell you, anyone over 25 is old. And their grade school siblings will tell you that anyone over 18 is ancient.
Age is a telling but relative metric we use to measure a person. And it’s currently a flash point in the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump supporters in the presidential election campaign.
Biden is 81 years old. Trump, 78. The three year gap calls to mind the same age difference between a high school freshman and a high school senior.
But, as life teaches us (ironically through getting older)age is not always an indication of ability and acuity.
Rupert Murdoch, 93, just last year retried as chairman of one of the largest media empires on the planet. He also married wife number five last month.
The face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, 39, is currently the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Politically, the youngest member of Congress is Rep. Maxwell Frost, 26, out of Florida. The oldest is Sen. Chuck Grassley, 89.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was in his early 70s when he suggested that grandparents—you know, old folks—would be willing to risk their lives during the early days of the pandemic in order to save the economy.
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space when she was only 26 years old;
Sally Ride was the first U.S. woman in space when she was 32 years old.
“Grandma” Moses was in her late 70s when she embarked on a career that would see her called a great American folk artist.
Age can be instructive but it’s not the only factor that reveals who a person is and what they might accomplish.
