Maassen is 45, he concludes that the direction of his life is firmly put: career wise, wife, home. Also, at 45 it slowly trickles into consciousness that your best time is behind you.

Maassen is 45, he concludes that the direction of his life is firmly put: career wise, wife, home. Also, at 45 it slowly trickles into consciousness that your best time is behind you. To this he makes a comparison with the Netherlands, where he finds that same conclusion. Is the best period of the Netherlands not behind us? We were always such a nice, cozy country. What went wrong?—dreamian