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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." -T. S. Eliot
@Chefmarty426 @WalterShaub Decrepit at 50?? No thanks. It seems to me that the 50s and 60s are the age combining max of knowledge, experience, curiosity, motivation, etc. Energy may be decreasing after 70.
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one should only offer to help when one can be sure the offer will be declined...
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I've never let my relative youth stand in my way ...
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or, perhaps, wise enough to do so …

@Chefmarty426 @WalterShaub This quote really speaks to me. I’m a healthy 75 and one of those “sandwich generation” folks. My children still rely on me for different kinds of support. My mom is almost 99 and I’m her primary caretaker; I guess one of these days, we’ll wind up in the same nursing home.
@[email protected] @Chefmarty426 just turn them down anyways. The day I turned 50 I started to trim out the obligations and focus only on what I truly care about.
@Chefmarty426 @WalterShaub I take exception to this pearl. I'm 66 and decrepit enough to turn anybody down. Indeed, I'm in an official turn-them-down status. I revel in it.