Wavy Gravy is 84 today.


Peter

Some days I squawk like a spring chicken... some days I whine like an old mule. I'm convinced though... it ain't about the years, it's the miles, and this dad-blamed bumpy road I been on for so long.     (since you asked... )

I make a lot of 'mule' noises when I get up from sitting or kneeling...

Odd thing is it seems the left side of my body is aging quicker than the right.
Left ear is shot, left shoulder sometimes sends out excruciating stingers, left knee is heading south and the heel of the left foot just started giving me fits.  Time for an upgrade - and I don't even have 6 decades around the sun yet!

The earth is around 4.5 billion years old.  So no, we are not old. 

So what if we are getting older.  I've been getting older my whole life.  Sure beats hell out of the alternative!

Bill, tgo

my back's been feeling old since I broke it at 20, so I got advanced warning...I'm in my 50's now and the other parts are catching up...

I'll be 72 next week.  Man, THAT'S old....(sigh)

Quote from: lbpesq on May 15, 2020, 02:39:50 PM
So what if we are getting older.  I've been getting older my whole life.  Sure beats hell out of the alternative!

Bill, tgo

Perfectly said.

Conceptually;____If we embrace our existence as a huge radius in tune with the Universe and congruent with its dimensional presence instead of a straight line with incremental integers with a finite start and end we cannot get old, just infinitely present locked in without time, forever on our souls journey in the path of the radius.

This Conceptual Epiphany I Quote, Composed By My Soul

Quote from: sonicus on May 17, 2020, 01:46:39 PM
Conceptually;____If we embrace our existence as a huge radius in tune with the Universe and congruent with its dimensional presence instead of a straight line with incremental integers with a finite start and end we cannot get old, just infinitely present locked in without time, forever on our souls journey in the path of the radius.

This Conceptual Epiphany I Quote, Composed By My Soul

I like that. 


Time IS a man made construct. 

I like the Zen version of "Ohms" law (not to be confused with Ohm's law).

Celebrate the 'eternal now' and the passing of time is recognized as an illusion.

Quote from: the_home on May 17, 2020, 03:02:09 PM
I like the Zen version of "Ohms" law (not to be confused with Ohm's law).

Celebrate the 'eternal now' and the passing of time is recognized as an illusion.

I need to make a clock where the face turns behind a hand that is always pointing to "Now".

Quote from: sonicus on May 17, 2020, 01:46:39 PM... just infinitely present

Yes

Quote from: the_home on May 17, 2020, 03:02:09 PM... Celebrate the 'eternal now' and the passing of time is recognized as an illusion.

And yes

" Celebrate the 'eternal now' and the passing of time is recognized as an illusion."

I like this

As a child of the 'Duck & Cover' Cold War (we had missile drills when I was in 1st and 2nd grade, scary stuff for a little boy that just came to school after watching 'Captain Kangaroo'), I honestly thought I'd one day look up, there'd be a huge flash, and that would be it.  That I've lived to 65 is a surprise to me, really.  Although, there's still time . . . .

I would not trade Me At This Age for that angry young man, full of piss and vinegar and raging hormones (although, I would second David Crosby's remark that I came along 'after the Pill and before AIDS'), with a short temper, not much willingness to listen to the older and wiser, and the attention span of a hamster on speed.  Today, I have far more empathy, occasionally even the patience of an oyster, and I know what really matters, and the great majority of things . . . . that just don't.

The only thing I dislike at this age is living long enough to have lost so many people in my life; when you're young, seems like only the very old or a rare random accident is the reason for losing the relatively few I lost at that age.  Otherwise, I seem to have lived long enough to finally know me, appreciate the good parts, and to humbly try and touch up the parts that still need some work.  I can finally look in the mirror and recognize that man.