Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gordon on June 08, 2022, 09:44:52 AM
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/08/im-nearly-60-heres-what-ive-learned-about-growing-old-tim-dowling
I can identify with almost all of this.
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Yep. Me too.
Plus, have you noticed how GP's are far too young now.
Also I now mainly do what is called binge watch tv shows. This is not necessarily because they are any good, but purely because I forget major plot points if I leave it a week between episodes.
I can also happily watch a film not realising I saw it three decades ago. Although strangely that doesn't apply to music, which I nearly always recognise.
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I've also noticed how efficient barbers have become of late - in my 20's it took a while to get through a haircut whereas these days I've barely got time to get the seat warm before I'm exiting the shop: plus I always get the pensioner discount without being asked if I qualify.
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On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Beeb sent sent a very young woman to interview Sir Georg Solti.
"Tell me, Sir Geog" she simpered, "what does it feel like to be eighty?"
"I'll tell you what it's like to be eighty," came the reply. "Look at my face. You see the face of an eighty year old man ... inside I am twenty."
I know just how he felt. Earlier this year I took a ferry trip to France. DFDS offer a 20% discount to passengers aged 60 and over, and I told my friends that I had received it but only after I had lied about my age.
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Church is the only place I go to where I'm probably still in the younger half of those present. I'm 71, so that tells you a lot about my church. (We do have some young families and children.)
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/08/im-nearly-60-heres-what-ive-learned-about-growing-old-tim-dowling
I can identify with almost all of this.
I don't know what he's talking about!!He's just a youngster. :)
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The older I get the faster the days seem to fly by!