You Know You're Getting Old...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by vienna

Then there is the relative timeline of memories: when you are young, everything was a few years ago, maybe several years ago. When you age, years turn into decades. My teen age years? Fifty decades ago, an entire half century. Watergate, Nixon, the end of the Vietnam War? Four Decades ago. Reagan, Iran-Contra? Three decades ago. Everything is in lumps of decades, not years...

Add to this the realization that even if I live to be 100 years old, I will still have fewer years to live than the amount I have already lived...

I still plan to live to be 100; there are still too many people I have yet to annoy...


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Fifty decades eh?

You win the oldest on SubSim prize by a country mile