He was one of the French cousins my brother's family went off to visit fairly often. It's not a personal loss for me (I don't know any of them), but my brother's family is taking it pretty hard and that affects me. All the harder when you think that there are many, many others going through the same thing.
Maybe the difference is not so much age, as experience. I'm 48 -- and it did go by so quickly. It's still weird that I can talk about things that happened decades ago. Anyway, my experience is that I slept through a lot of my youth on the theory that there was always tomorrow to get around to the things that needed doing. A lot of my post is just me talking to myself about the need to see life differently. There are a lot of regrets, and I want do better with this portion of my life than the first portion. I don't have the same sense of boundless future that I used to have, and it's forcing me to see that there's really so much value to the right now. It's helping a lot with the transition.
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Maybe the difference is not so much age, as experience. I'm 48 -- and it did go by so quickly. It's still weird that I can talk about things that happened decades ago. Anyway, my experience is that I slept through a lot of my youth on the theory that there was always tomorrow to get around to the things that needed doing. A lot of my post is just me talking to myself about the need to see life differently. There are a lot of regrets, and I want do better with this portion of my life than the first portion. I don't have the same sense of boundless future that I used to have, and it's forcing me to see that there's really so much value to the right now. It's helping a lot with the transition.