As humans, we have a timeline. We are born, go through our terrible twos, and progress through the whiny kid stage. As we develop into teenagers, our lives are fraught with anxiety, depression, and rebellion. We get our first job and struggle to ‘find ourselves’. Once we hit adulthood, we reach traditional maturity, attain responsibility and 'earn our place in the world'. But then the scales tip again, and we become old, grumpy, and tired. We all know this story, the age old evolution of the human life. We know what to expect, and, for the most part, our expectations are met. But what about those people who are ‘old souls’? Mature for their age, or just too wise for common explanation? In these cases we tend to say that the parents got lucky, did a good job, or some other explanation to rebuild…