Pasted from previous post.... and an excellent post it is....
 
<<<< How about considering how close to that dreaded "end" you are? At 44, and a diabetic, my number of years may be less - yet ANY of us could be hit by a truck (BIG truck) tomorrow. That means all of us are close to death - closer than we like to realize!   I guess I just want to remind everybody that life is short, and we should do what we like, and like what we do.>>>
 
The only comment I have is "Life is short but it's Wide.... and the 
following is my usual signature....by the way, I'm 53, which is also the year I was born, been through about 7 cycles of 7 as Iggy Pop would put it.
What if the world suddenly revolved backwards. And we all started growing younger. How would we feel about the passage of time?