Well the age of others to me is totally relavent to what mine is now. At sixty seven fifty seems fairly young.

I think the first time I was really concious of my age and mortality was on my fifty fifth birthday gathering. I suspect this varies with each individual. You of course are aware well over half your time has passed but fortunatly we do not dwell on it.

The only ripost I can think of is I have lived to see sixty seven and will probably see sixty eight this July. Many do not even get this far.

The old saying is completely true in my mind. Health and perhaps circumstance to a lesser degree dictate your actual age more than anything I can think of. As long as you have them that is you can stay pretty young in both outlook and activity.

It too has to go sometimes with the vast majority of us. At present mine is reasonably sound and does not inhibit me to any degree at all so far. I wish all others were in the same boat but know better. Hardly any of my generation can stay with me. No personal credit there particularily as that is more a matter of genetics.

Unfortunatly because of familiarity I believe. Apparent time seems to always speed up with every year we accumulate. I have not figured out a way to slow it down yet. Probably a waisted effort to attempt it anyways. So it just will continue to accelerate for me. The real hardship is I always thought time to do desirable things would free up more as the years went by. Unfortunatly that has not happened but instead is reversed.

Well happy fiftieth birthday as it approaches. If nothing else generally heated discussions do not usually errupt when we deal with absolutes. This has got to be one of them in my opinion.

My recently deceased father was fond of saying, "The older I get, the longer the days, and the shorter the years."

I just turned 50 a couple of months ago and I resemble his remark.

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