- 0–10 · Childhood
- Your family decides. Each year is a short chapter about care, school and money at home. Some city children grow up with grandparents in the provinces.
- From 10 · Effort
- Spread ten points across body, reasoning, emotional skill, creativity and drive. Revisit them every five years.
- From 15 · Money
- Your own account, separate from your family's. Everyday living takes most of what you earn; what you save becomes your runway.
- From 20 · Routes and places
- College and a field of study, work, a trade or your own venture. Move to Bangkok, the provinces, Singapore, Tokyo, Boston or London, and back.
- Decisions
- Love, marriage, children, a hard boss, a loan, a funeral abroad. The gravest stop time until you choose. Many return years later.
- The end
- It may come early. Nothing guarantees eighty. Then you may live again in the same world, under the same storms.