The next stage - is what, exactly?
Have reached that stage of life where friends and contemporaries are busy moving on to next stage. This seems to mostly comprise one or more of the following: - Getting married and moving to different, shinier city. - Getting married and moving to different, shinier apartment. - Dating someone with the intention of getting married (once a respectable amount of time has passed so friends and family cannot mutter, "Oh, but they rushed into it, didn't they," if all goes to hell) and moving somewhere . - Producing child - Adopting a dog (or cat, if adopter is underachiever/free spirit) - Promotion at work (ultimate step seeming to be "Director of" regardless of field of work) These are supplemented by one or more of the following activities: - Giving up cigarettes and developing mysterious allergy to all cigarette smoke - Reducing alcohol consumption to the odd glass of wine every few weeks - Growing veritable jungles in small balconies ...