Did you ever wonder how much you've accomplished in comparison to other people your age? Well, wonder no more. I give you:
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your AgeFor example, by the age of 23:
- John Singleton directed his first film, "Boyz 'N the Hood."
- T. S. Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
- John Keats wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn," which ends with the lines, "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. "
- English poet Jane Taylor wrote "Twinkle, twinkle, little star."
- Margaret Mead traveled to the South Seas as part of a "giant rescue operation" to study primative cultures before they perished.
- Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz made a spectacular concert debut when, impatient with the conductor's slow pace, he ran away from the conductor's tempo and finished Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 several bars ahead of time.
- Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Carson McCullers wrote her acclaimed first book, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
- Truman Capote published his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
- Orson Welles produced and performed his "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, terrifying millions of people. He also got his face on the cover of Time Magazine.
- Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Masters.
- Francois-Louis Cailler manufactured the world's first eating chocolate to be commercially produced.
- Marieanne McKeown survived cancer, raised £5,000 for Sri Lankan orphans and spent five weeks taking care of them in Sri Lanka.
- Alina spent an entire morning making a hunting scope track a plastic moose and her calf. Expects to spend the afternoon staring at a puppet crotch as she tries to remove the tie-down an animator carelessly left in shot.
