Reply to: Don't you feel it?

[suityou01]

"Finally"?

[shaunbhoy]

He looked at me like I had finally gone completely la la.

"Finally"?

[suityou01]

Difficult to feel optimistic about the next decade.

MIL's funeral today - next few years likely to see a lot more of the same with the older generation, along with caring for those whose bodies and minds are giving up on them.

Eldest son's a **** up, and can't see any light at the end of that tunnel.

Still, that's what wine's for...

Salut.

You're at that time in life where you know the score, and people start turning to you for advice. This is a privilege. You should be proud of all that you have achieved. Granted still a lot of life to live, but think about the positive influence you have on others. I think your a smashing lady, and am grateful to you for your advice, and banter, and organising the CUK pissups, cycling events etc.

The next few decades will probably be more of the same to be honest, but you contribute. That alone must bring some sort of inner peace, and if it doesn't then perhaps it's high time it did.

[Bellona]

Still, that's what wine's for...

Salut.

Salut


Keep smiling, bad days / things always highlight the negatives, it'll hopefully look better in the morning ( providing hangover not too bad!).

[mudskipper]

Difficult to feel optimistic about the next decade.

MIL's funeral today - next few years likely to see a lot more of the same with the older generation, along with caring for those whose bodies and minds are giving up on them.

Eldest son's a **** up, and can't see any light at the end of that tunnel.

Still, that's what wine's for...

Salut.

[suityou01]

Stay off the sauce you. Thought you were only one year behind me, or have you done a Michael Jackson?

[MyUserName]

So you're watching it tonight?

Not unless I have died and gone to hell!!!!

[scooterscot]

When you're over the hill your life starts going by faster and faster

I for one I'm rather glad I'd not live for years and years. I realise that may be the wish of some but I think it would be too much for the mind to bear. The prospect of continuing to witness the hate in the world, Syria, and so forth takes it's load upon thee. Or the 3-year old recently murdered, what state must a parent be in? Or the constant shootings in the US. I think back to my days working in the cemetery, passing stone after stone of those young ones lost in conflict. It's goes on.

You've got to see beyond your own life and make sure the next generation learns from the mistakes of the past to allow better memories to take hold.

[scooterscot]

I hope to never waste any more of my life watching that film again!

So you're watching it tonight?

[scooterscot]

Oh tulip. I have a big one tomorrow and I was feeling the years heavy upon me already until this thread.

[scooterscot]

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

I recall a graph during a statistics lecture whilst studying operational research. Mortality sees a sudden increase with time right after the mid-thirities. There's nothing linear about at all.

Yes indeed, make each day count.

[scooterscot]

I try to ask my wife at least 5 different questions about her day. I try to do something with my children even if it is just bowling on the WII etc.

Is this really cUK or am I in the twilight zone?

Some really heart felt stories here today, keep em coming.

[scooterscot]

Incidentally I'm now old enough to look at younger incarnations of myself and not quite recognise them. I tried to relate this to a friend over a beer, and the best analogy I could come up with was former Dr Whos. He looked at me like I had finally gone completely la la.

Stay off the sauce you. Thought you were only one year behind me, or have you done a Michael Jackson?

[MyUserName]

The years ahead seem fewer than the ones we've left behind. Oh you can outrun it with medicines and technologies but in the end time will make the kill.

"They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives..."

Dr. Tolian Soran

I hope to never waste any more of my life watching that film again!

[OwlHoot]

The years ahead seem fewer than the ones we've left behind. Oh you can outrun it with medicines and technologies but in the end time will make the kill.

"They say time is the fire in which we burn. Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives..."

Dr. Tolian Soran

When you're over the hill your life starts going by faster and faster