Today, Jeffrey asked how old my roommate is. "She's a couple of years younger than me; I think she's twenty-eight." I replied.
He did some quick calculations: "OK...so when YOU'RE one hundred, SHE'LL be ninety-eight."
I hadn't ever thought of that, but his math was accurate.
"You two will be old ladies together!" he continued, and then gestured to the rest of the class. "And all of us, we'll be young -- like in our seventies."
There's nothing like a little perspective.
(Just add another seventy years to this picture.)
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Sweet 90s at least he's awarded you a full life... in Kenya we do an average of 65 and usually we look like we've hit 110.
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