On 05/06/2015 08:20 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Hopefully you still have a long life in front of you but it is wisdom to
> realise that we are not eternal. In that sense, no life is wasted at all
> and there is only the awareness and the (mild) regret that not
> everything is possible (nor advisable). In the end, it is tending our
> garden the best we can - and enjoying it of course. With the cumulation
> of years, time speeds up indeed as suddenly you realise that only so
> many years are left to you. It is a sobering thought but not necessarily
> sad.

I don't know. I still think of myself as a poor broke student. I've just 
got my first real paying job. I've just moved out of my mum's house into 
my first student flat. I'm just starting out in life...

...except it's not true. I'm 35 years old. I'm nearly at the end of my 
career. In a few years' time I'll be TOO OLD to have children. [Not that 
I want to, but you know.] When I look at a pretty girl, I suddenly 
realise she's ten if not twenty years younger than me.

I just have an overwhelming feeling that it's all too late now. That the 
best years of my life are long over, and there's nothing I can do about 
it now.

Still, at least I have 23,000 rep on StackOverflow, eh? :-|

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