Over on my HinesSight blog, tonight I wrote "Time has a different flavor for old folks like me." Give it a read, especially if you're younger than me (likely you are), so you can see what the future holds.
This is how the post starts out.
Remember when you were three? Probably not. I recall what that age was like via my memory of what my young daughter and her friends would say when asked how old they are.
"Three going on four." They were so eager to be older, they'd fudge their age to get the next birthday into the answer.
Believe me, those days are long gone for us old folks. I'm fine with saying "73" when asked my age. What's more annoying is having to scroll down through history when a web site wants me to select the year I was born.
2000's, gone. 1990's, keep going. 1980's, around halfway there. 1970's, graduated from college. 1960's, high school. 1950's, childhood. 1940's, ah, finally reached the promised age-land. Which reminds me that World War II had only been over for a few years when I was born in 1948.
Dude, you're ancient! I'll say to myself.
For sure you'll never hear someone my age say "Seventy-three going on seventy-four." We've already got plenty of reminders that while time marches on for everybody, it feels like it's sprinting after you qualify for Medicare.
Heh, that's actually an interesting observation. How very young people try to inflate their age, and older folks try to play it down. (With the in-betweens not really caring about playing it in either direction --- unless, that is, they happen to score exceptionally high in the vanity department.)
Read your main post, in your other blog, as well. I've no doubt you've got a long way to go, Brian ---- living into the nineties isn't such a big deal these days, after all ---- but absolutely, living as if one may have to leave any time and without (much) notice, that's a great strategy, at any age at all (and also makes sense, factually, at any age at all).
Posted by: Appreciative Reader | January 09, 2022 at 06:13 AM
For us old farts - End the Known
A good 10 minute summation of the reality of human death and the suggestion to "die before death".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CMWd0KW3zY
Posted by: Albert | January 09, 2022 at 08:42 AM
A gorgeous video regarding the overcrowded mind, filled with all kinds of knowledge and information.
All that ENDS at our death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWdZINlJEz4
Freedom from the known (while alive) would mean the end of everything...absolute aloneness.
Posted by: Albert | January 11, 2022 at 06:18 AM