That 22-year-old kid on the left — an Air Force junior enlisted member — never contemplated being 62 years old. Time, at that age, has the promise of taking its time.
The 62-year-old guy today — a ServiceNow software engineer — realizes just how much time finds our concept of time quite irrelevant.
40 years is a blur – when I move around in my daily life today – from inside my mind, peering through my eyes – I see, feel and experience everything as though I’m still that 22-year-old kid–my thoughts are not as an aging man, but that 22-year-old kid.
It’s the reality of peering in the mirror or taking a selfie that I, today, see the aging man that has taken over my body.
I’m fortunate–God has decided to keep me around this long (and hopefully for another 20 years).
Aging: it’s not a bad thing – it’s just a natural process. How we react to it is what really matters.