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When I’m 65 For the past year, I have been thinking about my age. It has been on my mind constantly. And now today is February 26th, 2061 and tomorrow I turn 65. I have to let that sink in for a minute. 65 years old. Being on this Earth for that long almost doesn’t feel real to me, the time has flown by. I feel younger than I am, but I can also definitely feel the effects of my age in my body. There are some things physically that I can’t do anymore, my body aches me sometimes, my fingers aren’t as agile, but my mind is still sharp. I am very fortunate to still have my sense and thoughts. As I get older, it makes me look back on my life and everything that I have experienced in these six and half decades. Now this …show more content…
It seems that the older you get, the faster the years go by. I feel that by recollecting my life and telling my story is an important thing to do. I haven’t done huge things that the world would take notice of, but I built a life that I think is a good one. I remember back when I was in college, I was taking a class and we had this assignment where we had to talk about what we thought our lives would be like when we got to the age of 65. I don’t remember what I wrote or what I predicted would happen in my life but I wouldn’t mind reading it now and compare it to my actual life, to see if I achieved all that I hoped I would. Even at my old age, I still have time to accomplish some more feats, I might even surprise myself. The way I see it is that as long as I have air in my lungs and blood in my veins, then I still have time. Life is a working progress and I want to have one that I can look back on in my death bed and be satisfied with. Time is the most valuable thing on this Earth and I don’t intend on wasting it. It is the only thing that can’t be gotten again once you lose it. Every day I wake up and ask myself, what am I going to do today? The answer to that question is what you do in your life and how you live, you just have to make sure you don’t let time pass you