It’s hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
–Mignon McLaughlin
A Mindful Life / Kathryn Harper
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It’s hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
–Mignon McLaughlin
We each have a memory of our older relatives as they became infirm, and can readily define their transition from middle age to old age. My approach is to take the age of transition from middle age to old age for my five deceased relatives who had greatest longevity, and assume that genetics and modern medicine will allow me to make my transition at about the same age. Assuming one begins to act like an adult at about age 20, it is easy to calculate the span of middle age….20 years old to 90 years old…and to calculate the middle of it…age 55…
Bill
So true. Are you getting the poetry in the mail each day for Poetry Month? And I’m delighted to see that you are still fitting art into your schedule when you can.
But I thought the question was a joke. I mean, I can calculate all I want (which wouldn’t be much considering I can’t come up with a list of five deceased relatives, my family history being what it is), and I still won’t know how long I’ve got. So, I thought the excellent point was the futility and foolishness of expressions like middle-aged. Or maybe I’m too cynical for my own good.
I plan to live to 150, so that means I’ve got 30 years or so before my mid-life crisis! 🙂
I took the question as tongue in cheek. Like Marta, I kind of agree that it’s futile. What’s weird is that, as I approach mid-40s, I still feel so green in many ways.