It's wild to think about how short human history is. For example, the iron age started approximately 1200BC, which means that if you are 32 years old you have been alive for 1% of the time humans have used iron. If you are 54 years old then you have lived through 1% of horses being domesticated, the wheel being used for transport, written language and living in towns. 🤯
@gundersen 53 here, so that is confronting. 🙂
@kuridala @gundersen
Couldn't agree more.
I'm still trying to get my head around being 53. Pretty sure my parents are lying.
After reading this I'm going for a little fetal rock and groan.

@Anna_Thema @gundersen
There is a very apt pet shop boys lyric for that

I never dreamt that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be

@Anna_Thema @kuridala @gundersen

It gets weirder, the older we get. There's a high risk if focusing on the "what's left" of our lives, vs. really making the most of it!

@Sfwmson @Anna_Thema @gundersen I can add to that the fact that we tend to look backwards a lot as we get older as well.
The only real important thing is right now.