Thoughts on impermanence.

[icarus]

It occurs to me that my birthday is coming soon.

It occurs to me that I'm coming up on 40.

It occurs to me that if I live till I'm 80, that's the half-way point.

It occurs to me that my dad's health issues started when he was in his early 60s.

So it occurs to me that I really, conservatively, have 25 years left where I can (hopefully) function as I do now. (Yes, I know many spry people in their 70s and 80s and my grandfather was one of them, though he was an early health nut and took better care of his body than I have.)

Hmm.

Comments

[jaig.livejournal.com]

How does all the time feel? You know, with the past 40 years going.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Like water running down an increasingly steep mountain.

1 - 20 was sooooo slow, it was eon before every birthday.

My 20s were gone faster than I thought, it was a bit of a shock when I hit 28. I guess I had overblown ideas about what I'd accomplish by the time I was thirty. (I was pretty depressed about 30.)

My 30s. Shit. I'm still on 34-35. I'm not sure how I got here so fast. I'm fairly certain that a few years must have skipped forward, like a skip on a CD. At least four years are missing in there.

Icarus

[jaig.livejournal.com]

Aaah. *snug* Never thought it that way, but yeah, my birthdays feel so far inbetween right now, come to think about it.