Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.
I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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