Don't you feel it?

[suityou01]

This is one thread I hope BrilloPad has the good sense to keep out of. And I mean this in a caring, Bedwetting, give a tulip type way.

[d000hg]

The years ahead seem fewer than the ones we've left behind.

I feel the opposite - the future drags on like a vast ocean and I've no idea how I'm going to fill the journey.

When you think about it, the first decade of your life you are a child. The second decade you are developing into an adult, studying, and only at 20 are you likely to stand on your own two feet for the first time (a generalisation of course), typically when you leave university. That means that if you expect to live to 80, at 35 you're only a quarter of the way through your adult life.

I've barely lived a decade as a proper adult and it seems like a long time. Thinking a decade ahead I've no idea what I'll be doing. Getting my head around the likelihood I've another half-century of this left is impossible.

[suityou01]

I feel the opposite - the future drags on like a vast ocean and I've no idea how I'm going to fill the journey.

When you think about it, the first decade of your life you are a child. The second decade you are developing into an adult, studying, and only at 20 are you likely to stand on your own two feet for the first time (a generalisation of course), typically when you leave university. That means that if you expect to live to 80, at 35 you're only a quarter of the way through your adult life.

I've barely lived a decade as a proper adult and it seems like a long time. Thinking a decade ahead I've no idea what I'll be doing. Getting my head around the likelihood I've another half-century of this left is impossible.

I know what you're saying, and I get it, but try to be more grateful about being in good health buddy

[Mich the Tester]

Don't you feel it?

No. MTFU.

[scooterscot]

No. MTFU.

I I.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.

[Platypus]

You old Trekkie!

ftfy

Now, beam me up !

[d000hg]

I know what you're saying, and I get it, but try to be more grateful about being in good health buddy

I didn't say I wasn't. I just see the future as far larger than the past.

[suityou01]

I didn't say I wasn't. I just see the future as far larger than the past.

OK, my bad.

[scooterscot]

Damn right.

Reminds me of a story. This English guy I used to work with in Berlin. He was coming up to his retirement, months away. I asked what of his plans for the future. Plans?! you say, no such thing. "I'm moving back to England to die quietly" were is exact words!

Victor Meldrew eat your heart out

[expat]

I feel the opposite - the future drags on like a vast ocean and I've no idea how I'm going to fill the journey.

When you think about it, the first decade of your life you are a child. The second decade you are developing into an adult, studying, and only at 20 are you likely to stand on your own two feet for the first time (a generalisation of course), typically when you leave university. That means that if you expect to live to 80, at 35 you're only a quarter of the way through your adult life.

I've barely lived a decade as a proper adult and it seems like a long time. Thinking a decade ahead I've no idea what I'll be doing. Getting my head around the likelihood I've another half-century of this left is impossible.

After just about then, time starts passing a lot faster. I'm 62 now so pushing 3/4 of the way through adulthood by your reckoning, and I'm getting nervous because I seem to be at best half-way through what I want to do with my life.

Cheer up, it may not last that long. My best friend from age 13 (mutual Best Man and all that) died in his 50s from a heart attack quick enough that he didn't even get out of the chair. Good way to go but way too early. My second best friend, from about age 17 or so, had a massive stroke in his 50s and is completely paralysed on one side. He was planning just a few more years hard work so he would have the money to enjoy the rest of his life (instead he could afford a really good wheelchair). And I guess my third-best mate died of heart disease, also in his 50s. I'm dancing as fast as I can now, I feel like I'm on borrowed time.