Epiphany on aging

You should come up with a fresh name for this. Maybe something unheard of like midlife crisis

The epitome of an epiphany

I’m 59. I get what you’re talking about.

Live your life to its fullest. I plan to bounce my last check and die exhausted.

After the age of 40 or 45, life is just prolonged melancholy and decline.

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driven more years than you have in the future to drive

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Definitely. But I have the means to drive much better vehicles.

I know friends that didn't make it out of teenage years.

I have family that didn't make it to see teenage years.


I've lived pretty much double what any of them did. I'd like to think I could go at any time and be lucky to have made it this far.

I stopped worrying about these types of questions before I ever voted.

I remembered that one of Ted Bundy's victims was a little girl from my mom's home town. My grandmother knew her family. Girl was 12 when Bundy got her.
Teacher at my school went through a drive-in at a fast food place, on the way to school, to get some coffee. No one there. Goes to the window. No one there. Gets to school, an hour or so later hears on the radio someone had just gone in there, robbed the place, marched the employees into the cooler and shot them. Most were in their 20s.
Guy from another high school, same age as me, got hit head on by a truck while on a scooter or something. That was a wrap.
Just after high school working at my dad's place some people were accosting this girl that was deaf and mute. I and another guy intervened. Dudes went to jail. The next day they were out, drove by later, pointed a gun at me in the parking lot and fired. Missed.
One of my friends wanted to smoke a cigarette after some rain came through, so we went outside to bullshite while he smoked. Something didn't feel right. Lightning struck about 25 feet away or so, loudest thing I've ever heard and just blinding light. It's hard to explain the sensory shock. We hit the ground, got up and there was a 3ft piece of tree embedded into a wood fence about an arm's length away.

I stopped worrying about trajectories at that point. When it's your time, it's your time.

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After the age of 40 or 45, life is just prolonged melancholy and decline.

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The things that happen after 44 is just God showing you that sometimes being dead aint so bad. By 67 you just start low-key looking forward to it.

My dad is 73. 30 years older than me. If I’m in as good of shape as he is when/if I get there then that would be fine with me.