Didn't make the finish line

[bloomen]

In one's late 40s you reach the slightly strange age of feeling just the same as ever, but also only having another 5-10 years left is no longer a freak occurrence and not all that unlikely a possibility.

That comes with one's sense of time ramping up big time and year feeling like it's gone in a flash.

A couple of contemporaries are gone in their mid 40s. Two of my uncles didn't get past their late 50s.

Little point in dwelling on it too much, but it's real and it certainly ain't going away.

Gawd knows how much time I've squandered in the past, but I can't let that happen any more.

Edited by bloomen on Thursday 25th April 02:08

[TwigtheWonderkid]

One of the reasons I retired at 58. Yes, it came with financial sacrifices, and I'll never have the 911 I always promised myself, but I'm not homeless and I have enough food to eat. I'm 61 now and the last 3 years have been the best of my life.

[Pit Pony]

Miocene said:

Pit Pony said:

Life expectancy follows a classic reliability bath tub curve.

Infact mortality, random failures followed by wear out.

Unfortunately the manufacturing process has so much variation its difficult to predict for most people.

Don't forget the 'blip', specifically in men for their mid-20s, where death by misadventure reduces the numbers!

Ah, was the statistic that 90% of men aged 15 to 25 think they are immortal.????

Post warranty software glitch perhaps. Using too much of the wrong fuel ?

[Purosangue]

lost my best mate when he was 22 , born 4 months apart , our mothers met in the same nursery and became friends , we lived in the same town went to the same school , birthday parties usual stuff, school in the 70s was a lot of fun there were 5 of us

I liked Rugby and having a scrap , he was a bit more sensible , but we always looked after each other ,
I bought my first car a MK1 Capri 1600 GT from him

I did my engineering apprenticeship , he became a croupier in a casino , he was pretty good and got invited onto the cruise ships ....bugger couldn't swim , then we heard 6 months into a cruise whilst docked in Mexico he went swimming in Cozumel got caught in a ripe tide and drowned .

bloody awful time , he's buried in the same cemetery as my parents , i kept in touch with his family we had BBQs together , sadly his mother died this year , buried together poignant inscription reads reunited together .

We always celebrate his birthday he would have been 59 RIP mate