Rules About Aging
When you're in a place where you'll probably be around forever, aging can get to be a big deal. In the Lower East Side, just like the rest of Heaven, eternity is a long time. How are you going to handle it? Here are a few rules to help you sort out the options.
Age Rule #1 - Forever Option
For some reason, not a lot of people sign up for this option. Maybe when you're three the idea of looking and acting a little bit older everyday appeals to you. But when you start imagining what it is when your skin actually looks 10,000 years old you might want to pick another option...
Age Rule #2 - Time Freeze Option
A popular option for many age brackets is the option to stay the same age forever. The time freeze option locks in your age at the time of your arrival here. Like with anything else, however, there is a downside potential. Suppose you arrived here as an infant. Even as you "grow" mentally through experiences, you would be physically unable to do a lot of things.
Age Rule #3 - Pick One Option
All of us have (or had) a favorite period in our lives. Was sixteen a great age for you? How about twenty-one, or forty, or seventy-five? With this option, you can see that sixteen or twenty-one or forty year old you in the mirror every morning.
Age Rule #4 - Flexibility Option
OK, this one can be a little hard on those around you, especially if your loved ones are up here too, but it means that every morning you get to choose how old you want to be for the day. This one is also pretty high on the popularity list.
Age Rule #99 - Surprise Me
If you choose this option, every morning at 4:00 am HST, you become some random age. We picked this time because it's a couple hours after the bars close and you're less likely to be "in the middle of something."