After I retired I couldn't work out how I ever had time to work 40+ per week. Too busy.

It creeps up on you. I can remember thinking that people in their 30's were old, then I got there . . . people always said when you hit the 40's it's the start of the downhill run, your eye sight starts to go, yeah right, not long after I turned 40, maybe 44/45, I noticed it, the eye's indeed were dimming, just a little, but enough to notice. Then came 50, and now half way to 52. Don't feel old and decrepit, still feel young, but I can remember thinking how old those over 50's looked. Meet people I knew when younger, back in the school years, and man some of them really do look old, like they got one foot in the grave, hard to believe some of them are the same age.
 
Anyway what can you do, enjoy it if you are fit and healthy, and remember it's never to late.

Well, that's it! Handed in my work phone, laptop, ID cards etc. A few last drinks with (ex)colleagues tonight and fly I back to the UK tomorrow.
 
As Dave Cousins wrote ("On Growing Older" from Grave New World)
 
"If some times I feel in retrospect,
A regret for the waste of my youth,
I cause to reflect that I still have time,
Before growing old in the tooth,
To achieve all the things I should have achieved,
When Idleness led me astray
And being aware of what I have missed,
I am extending my use of the day"
 
Sounds better than.
"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"
Sorry Roger.
 
 
 
 

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