Well, average life expectancy in the UK is about 83 for women and 81 for men, so I guess anything around that is about ‘it’. Jeff had ‘a decent knock’
That was true in our family up to my father's generation who all lived well into their 80's. My last remaining Uncle is nearly 90.
Three and a bit years to go, then l can be happy with my lot. That's a relief to know.
It's always a little bit older than I am.
Indeed, mind over matter and all that.
Mentally I am decades younger than my body
My father (heart attack at 62) looked older than me now (nearly 65) when he was only in his early 50s.
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Given YOUR taste in music you’ll never be old, I suggest 20 year olds may struggle to keep upMy father (heart attack at 62) looked older than me now (nearly 65) when he was only in his early 50s.
If you go back over the millennia, the average human lifespan has been around 30, with illness and violent assault (largely by other humans) taking care of business. So we have evolved to breed in our mid teens, and rear our offspring to mid teens. Only in the last couple of hundred years have we started to seriously consider allowing 'older' people to have a life. For the working class, the over 60s were consigned to the bin even recently. The changes in the last 30 years have been astronomical. I remember in the 70s if you saw someone over 30 wearing denim jeans, they were American tourists. Englishmen (working class, anyway) wore nylon slacks.
That (the prevailing short life span of old) is why we are so vulnerable to diseases of age, which we have not 'bred out', and which is why none of us live for ever. In fact, it is advantageous to the gene pool/species to have people die after child rearing. If it was an advantage to the species or individual to live forever, that's what we would do. Among the animals birds and fish, most live a finite lifespan that is relatively short (and oddly correlated with average heart rate). Humans are one of the very few that digress, living beyond that predicted base on heart rate. Lifespan now, that is. Not when lifespan was around 30 up to a few hundred years ago.
In the great scheme of things there is little difference between 40 and 90 in terms of how much wisdom you can pass down to the next generation, either. In fact, as we get older we can become alienated by the generations that follow, and their innovations (in behaviour, language, social attitudes etc.). If I have one goal as my years advance it is to never ever become a grumpy old man, moaning about the youth of today. It won't be too much of a challenge for me, though, because since I was a teenager I have always considered that most people, of whatever generation, are twats.
It's a shame you're only 28.
That is some put downIt's a shame you're only 28.
