an original thought

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I just spoke with a friend that just lost a long time four footed friend, and I do not know if its original or not but what came out of my mouth was: "The midpoint of your life is not a matter of years, but rather from right now to through what you have left."

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), October 16, 2001

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Mitch, I like that. I once heard that, if the Bible gives the average age at death as 70, then 35 is mid-life and anything after that is old. I will be 36 next spring and would rather stay mid-life the rest of my life. (I wonder if I am making sense?)

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), October 16, 2001.

Live your life, like you have just as much ahead of you, as you do behind you! Is that close to what you were thinking. I like it.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), October 16, 2001.

mitch, An old adage......Love like you've never been hurt....Dance like no one is watching....and Work like you don't need the money! Sincerely, Ernest

-- http://communities.msn.com/livingoffthelandintheozarks (espresso42@hotmail.com), October 16, 2001.

Ernest, you and my husband would be quite a pair! He always says he wasn't looking for a job when he got this one! sorry Mitch! (off- topic I know)

-- Melissa (me@home.net), October 16, 2001.

Leave it to me to get into the numbers here. Average life expectancy of everyone born today is about 70 years. That number goes up for you for every year you are alive.

Another way to look at it is that every ten year old has already avoided all the reasons people day in their first ten years so their number increases. Every forty year old has an even higher number because they have already survived forty years. Acturial tables make many adjustments (for smoking, drinking, etc., or not) but the facts hold that every year you live increases the liklihood you'll live even longer.

My Mom is eighty-two and the tables say she'll likely see early nineties. When she turns ninety, however, the likelihood of her seeing late nineties has increased dramatically. I hope this helps.

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), October 16, 2001.



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