[ WP ] Humans have - by a very large margin - the longest lifespans of all intelligent life in the universe . You are a human student at a multi- species college , and you / your friends are just realizing that compared to them , you are an ancient being .

My friends all stared at me in shock, Ji'him's mandibles were wide open, revealing his hellish mouth. Sinhin, my other roommate, who deeply resembled a seagull, with his feathers and beak, looked as if I had told him a terrible secret. 
 
 `` Tht c n't b tr!'' Denied Cssndry, my friend, in her crude speach, as her native language lacked vowels. She shook her head, the set of purplish horns, which matched her skin tone, waved back and forth with her. 
 
 `` Why ca n't it be true?'' I asked as I eyed up all my assembeled friends, who had come over to try a game they had insisted we play. I was a collector of old games, of the video variety. The idea of sci-fi went out of style pretty quickly when we had found actual aliens, but I still enjoyed some of the classics. I set my game of Halo to pause, for I felt this conversation would take a while. 
 
 `` Yjrtr od mp esu upi vsm nr yjsy paf! Yjsy od yrm zu shr!'' Ji'him proclaimed, as his mandibles clicked with every word. The cobalt armour, he was allowed to wear instead of a uniform, slashed against itself as he stood, to add emphasis. 
 
 Ten times older then him.... I did a little math in my head, 20÷10 that makes him.... `` Your only two years old!?!'' I shouted, as the math came to me, and I realized how old my best friend was. `` Are you all that young?'' I asked, when I had calmed down enough for rational thought. 
 
 Cssndry shook her head as she smiled, `` Nt m,'m twc hs g.'' She said, as she reassured me. It felt good to have my girlfriend helping me with this. Wait? Twice that? `` Your only four years old?'' I realized, begining to feel light headed, luckily I was already sitting. `` nly fr?'' She asked, as she looked at me, obviously insulted. `` M hlf wy dn my lf, hw cn y sy Tht?!?'' She screamed at me, as I felt my blood run cold. My girlfriends species may not be able to pronounce vowels to save their lives, but they could defiantly get angry, and when their angry, they were fearsome! 
 
 I began back pedalling away from her as I tried to pull my ass from the fire. `` Well-ll you seeee, it, it, it's because, my species sometimes, lives for 100 years, so that's really not a lot to me!'' I desporatly tried to explain. It seemed to stop her, as well as garner attention from SinHin, who had stopped paying attention awhile ago. `` That's ancient!'' He shouted, as he looked at me, his cockney accent really pronounced, as he unintentionally insulted me. I always wondered where he got a cockney accent from, and how it still worked, coming from a birds beak. 
 
 `` Your going to outlive me and my kids and grand kids, and their grand kids!'' He shouted as he tried to procces this information, his skinny body, begining to shake as he so often did when thinking. `` From now you could see my name being reused at most 4 times, before you die!'' SinHin exclaimed, his feathers ruffling. I knew from his rants about his home planet, between the oceans, and the mountains, he had mentioned that names were chosen at birth, and they were the names of the generation who had died, after, what I now figured was about 20 years of life. 
 
 My friends stared at me in shock, awe and a little bit of fear. I moved to restart the game, but thought better of it, and turned it off. I had the present of being able to live long and prosper, but my friends, certainly did n't have the benefit of the former. I could n't afford to waste a second of my time with them.
