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You've reached a time in your life that, when you were in your
teens and twenties, you didn't even think about ever reaching. But,
now you're here.
Most of us, or at least I think most of us, don't have an image
of ourselves as old. That is, until we try to do something that we
find is much more challenging than it once was, like lifting
something or moving something. Then we get a new reality.
A few months ago I went to my 45th class reunion. It was a
great time visiting with people I hadn't seen in decades. The thing
I found amazing, and you may find the same thing when you go to a
class reunion, is how many people weren't fit enough to travel to
the event. It was pretty incredible.
I'll get back to my thoughts on ageing shortly, I just want to
take moment and mention class reunions. If you haven't gone to one
and have the opportunity to go to one, don't miss it. A high school
friend of mine that I hadn't seen in over 30 years was not going to
go, and have never been to, the class reunion. I talked him into it
and he had the best time he'd had in years.
Like most of us as we get older, I have a few aches and pains,
but I can do darn near anything I could years ago. And yet, there
are quite a number of people my age that were too sick to travel.
What a revelation. It made me sit up and thank my lucky stars that
I'm as fit as I am.
This site is dedicated to those of us that have passed that 50
milepost and are charging, on oblivious to our own mortality. It's
funny that I haven't though of "mortality" until I used it in the
previous sentence. And, even if were NOT oblivious to our own
mortality, were charging on. |