Welcome to the Dark Side
I remember my father turning 80 just a month after I'd turned 50. I called him on the phone in Ft. Myers, Florida and we chatted for a while. Finally I had to ask him, " Dad, how do you feel being 80"? He replied, " That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is I have a son who's over a half century old"!
He then preceded to issue a warning for my future. "When you're in your fifties..... you blink your eyes and a year goes by. When you make it to your eighties......you blink and a decade goes by". I never understood why time appears to speed up when we know that it doesn't. One of my smarter friends gave me his opinion on the subject.
" When you're 2 years old, a year is half of your life. At 10 it only represents 10% of your life and by the time your 50"..........well, you see where he was going with it. So welcome to a little smaller slice of life than you had last year. Now isn't that a happy thought?
All the best my friend and I hope you have many, many more. :bch:
