Have you hit the age yet where you think this will be your last experience/trip? I remember taking my dad to Shanghai, China. On the last day before we left he was actually tearing up. I asked why. He said because this will be his last trip to China. And yes, it was his last trip.
I think about that every time I travel somewhere. Will this be my last trip here? Versus when I was younger and everything was a new experience. That I'd like to go back and visit a country again. Now its I'm running out of time. What should I do one last time before time runs out.
Yeah, really should not have free time to think.
Many have said it more eloquently, but live your life so that you'll have no regrets. I can forgive myself more easily for the mistakes I've made, but I beat myself up for opportunities I missed because I was too chickenshit to size them. You want to travel? Go travel. Personally, travel does not interest me. I'm 70yo and refuse to feel old. I'm pushing old age away by screwing as many lovely young women as often as I can and I'll keep on doing it until I can't. One thing I know for certain is that when I'm sitting in my rocker, too old to play any more, I'll have lots of excellent stories and memories and very few regrets.
and I think about this endlessly.
I ought to take up drinking.
with the last thing you said. And I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but spending ANY time thinking along those lines is just morose and depressing. Are you retired? Just go out and live it up and have fun any way you can. My 2 cents.
yes, things have slowed down. However I belive that I have quite a few years left in me.
I am about to buy what may be my last car - shopping for a two seater, possibly red. For me and my dog! We two old geezers are going to have some fun...
I've thought about that, too. This may be my last car.
yes, things have slowed down. However I belive that I have quite a few years left in me.
I am about to buy what may be my last car - shopping for a two seater, possibly red. For me and my dog! We two old geezers are going to have some fun...
I've battled it all of my life but wasn't diagnosed until 1996. At age 64, I've learned how to recognize many things that can trigger a depressive episode and latching onto thoughts such as those you're describing here might be a path to the Deep Black Pit.
I've found Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to be a great aid in dealing with these issues and giving me techniques to deal with them. Get up, get moving, go to the gym and LIVE your life. True, it's the only on we have, so however much time you have left, make it worth it!
Sure, there are times when I see myself running out of time, but then I think that I also have a good shot at another 20 years of productive life ahead of me. Good genes, a healthy lifestyle and being self-aware about my condition all contribute to my attitude of living life, not worrying too much about my death. It happens to the best of us, so do all that you can to live a good and productive life!
I am right there with you and CBT has helped me as well. It helps with the mood as well as working on it for delayed orgasm/anorgasmia.
Gladiator.
In my early thirties, I developed a permanent untreatable problem with my left eye. At that time I regularly played base ball in a very amateur league. wi It was one of my great pleasure. You can't hit s ball without sight out of your left ye. End of one of life's pleasures. So what. No more baseball but I also don't ever have to take e a NY State Regents High School Test either.
There is always a bitter sweet quality to goodbyes. My wife bought me a Mercedes so I would stop driving --at age 75-- my fast stick shift rear wheel drive tiny sports car. She was right: it was not longer safe for me, Bitter sweet, move on.
At 75, there are many goodbyes,Dear friends dying, favorite cities visited for the last time, but I still (thank you God) work 50 or 60 work weeks, I don't turndown invitations to interview for new challenges, and I wonder what's around the next bend.