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So true that time seems to go so much faster when you are older. When I was a kid, for example, summer vacation seemed to last forever. Now whole months and years seems to fly by.
I remember my mother at age 95 shaking her head sadly and saying, "I just don't know where all the time went!".
Seems like the days, weeks, months, years go by quicker now during retirement.....weird because my work weeks were hectic, lots of 12+ hr days, weekend included....but the years would drag on....now, it seems like time is whizzing by (too fast)....
So true that time seems to go so much faster when you are older. When I was a kid, for example, summer vacation seemed to last forever. Now whole months and years seems to fly by.
I remember my mother at age 95 shaking her head sadly and saying, "I just don't know where all the time went!".
I know we are all different. When I worked the days and weeks flew by. Looking for five o’clock and weekends. Not so much now with each day the same and no wishing for 5:00 to come. A time of savoring each hour and day. Time has slowed for me
Longevity is not a family trait, so I expect my time is more limited. I enjoy every day. I have "my affairs in order." I hope I leave some money to my kids. We used to be very poor and they were real troopers all through those days.
I will be 100 in another 16 years, but I am more concerned about how I will go out than when. My father went out at 65 from cancer, that was bad. My mother went out at 91, she went to bed and never woke up. That is the way to go.
I never thought about it, but 1 year ago this month, my son had a headache and I brought him into the emergency ward at the hospital. It was a mild stroke and everyone said "don't worry he'll be fine" 11 days later he died. He was only 38 and healthy as could be. So I've realized that planning for the future or wondering how long I have is irrelevant, you just never know.
Before I saw the Johnny Cash video "Hurt" for the first time a couple of weeks ago, which is about the most depressing thing I have ever seen, I would only think about it for a couple of seconds about once a year or less. However, discovering that he made that video when he was only 71 -- and he, imo, looks about 90 in it and died only a few months later -- hit me like a the proverbial ton of bricks. When he made that video, he was only seven years older than I am, and that really got to me -- and now it seems like I think about and wonder about how much time I have left a LOT. (Hopefully that kind of thinking will stop soon.)
I watched the video after I read your comment.
I agree, he doesn't look 71. He looks like a man for whom decades of hard drinking and drug abuse had taken its toll. Since I haven't done that -- and I'm betting neither have you -- the video didn't give me a chill. I'm the same age as you.
The song is incredibly powerful, though, and inspired me to renew my vow to live every day to the fullest and let no two days be alike.
This was a pretty insightful comment on YouTube:
This song is Johnny's warning to us all. Everything we do every day matters. Every hurtful word and action matters, and in the end, everything we screw each other over for becomes an "empire of dirt."
I used to think about how much time I had left; I counted down the hours I had left before retiring.
When I got home from work that last day, I greeted my wife with "Now our life begins".
Bon Jovi "I'm not gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I'm alive."
Sometimes I think about the great people who have gone before me. My faith teaches eternity for everyone so I'm looking forward to seeing my grandma again.
i have way more road behind me than I do in front of me. It gives me the creeps sometimes.
I'm next. Not much family left. A few cousins and my beloved son.
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