Day 203
Rapidly approaching is my 68th birthday. Now here is the thing, more than one person has said to me “oh your almost 70” No I am not I am 68, if my maths is correct and I think it is, I will be 70 in two years time. Why when we were young you want to be older at 17 you want to be 18 at 18 you want to be 20 and so on (and someone in their thirties seems ancient)? When you finally get older why then would you say as many seem too “I’m nearly 70 or 80 you know” when they are in mid 70’s or mid 60’s, why? There is no big deal in living to an older age, people have been doing it for centuries. If you get a normal span then you will live to be old. If you are like everyone else you will look back and wonder how it went by so quickly? It did not especially as time does not really exist but that is whole other discussion that I have touched upon in older blogs. Are you any wiser, knowledgeable, kinder, happier? The answer is all of the above and paradoxically, no at the same time. You still do stupid things, say stupid things are unkind and unhappy. Just not as often. You learn from mistakes. Experience gives a perspective. Really your just ageing, a simple fact of living longer. Hopefully you’ve picked up some knowledge along the way?
And so I give you a poem:
2000 years
2000 years have come and gone
I haven’t seen them all
My beard would be so long by now
It wrap around the Hall
2000 years have run there course
I wonder where they went
If I’d lived in the same house
I’d have paid a lot of rent
2000 years have run their course
I wonder how we know
Did somebody tick them off
Or use them just for show
2000 years have run their course
They went by pretty quick
A lot of people came and went
One of them was Dick
2000 years have run their course
Disasters have been many
The Earth has tried to shake us off
But we weren’t having any
Stay well
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