The really unwise may manage to be killed-off while young. But I’ll agree with the old (at least 40 years) guy in my broadcast electronics program when I was 20. He said his father looked at him and sighed, “The older he gets, the dumber he gets.” That’s me. I’ll also paraphrase RA Heinlein: “It’s amazing how much ‘mature wisdom’ resembles ‘too tired to fuck with it’”. That’s my wisdom. Compute the cost/benefit ratio, then bail out.
Oh, absolutely.
Noticeably so.
I spotted it a long long time ago. When I was in my 30s, I typed up ages on a sheet of paper with dots between the numbers. I used a formula so that the number of dots between (let’s say) the 10th and 11th year were double the number of dots that you’d encounter between the 20th and 21st year.
It scaled pretty well except for the less-than-one-year-old part which would end up having an infinite number of dots.
By the ages of 109 and 110 there was one single dot between the numbers.
Anyway, yeah, the notion is that a person experiences a year (or a month or whatever) as being n/totalN where n is that interval and totalN is the total number of internals of that size you’ve lived through. So when you’re five, a single year is 1/5 of a lifetime. When you’re fifty, a year is 1/50 of a lifetime so of course it’s smaller.
I just popped in to say that I’m not that familiar with the OP’s work (as is about to become obvious), but from the general tone of their posts I always assumed they were late 20s/early 30s. Good for you and happy birthday!
Thank you very much AHunter3.
IMO, that wss a splendid piece of wisdom. I will value that always.
You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older
And now you’re even older
And now you’re even older
You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older
And now you’re older still
Time
Is marching on
And time
Is still marching on