doodledee

There was an interesting stat thing in the Sunday Strib's 'By the Numbers' section. It said:

Asked if they could "stop time and live forever in good health at a particular age, what age would you like to live at?", average age given by those age 65 or older: 59

Response of people age 18 to 24: 27

I have no idea where this statistic came from, but I thought it was neat to see how peoples' perspective changes as they grow older. Sure, it's reasonably safe to assume that young people would look ahead and oldies would look back, but who would have thought the oldies would only look back to their late 50's? What's so great about being 59? Is it the golf? The social security? The fact that they can't remember stuff further back than that?

I'm personally a little worried about reaching the point when I suddenly wish it was yesterday. Yesterday I probably said something stupid or acted like a total jackass, so there's no need to relive that, right? And that's not to say that yesterday didn't create a lot of great memories - because it did - it's just not really something I'd want to be Groundhog Day'd into for the rest of my life. At least not yet.

But really who cares. I'm only like halfway to the supposed nirvana and I'm having enough fun now. If it really gets better, well then I guess that's just gravy. Yummy delicious gravy.

Somebody bake me some biscuits.