I know I'm 81, and sometimes my aches and pains remind me all too realistically. But other times I find myself thinking, how the heck can I be 81? How did I get to be so old so quickly. I stop and think about graduating high school and it seems like not so long ago, yet it was almost 65 years ago. I think of the day my first child was born, and that baby is now 56. And a photo of me while in Vietnam just showed up on the slide show on my laptop and I thought, hey, I remember that day like it was yesterday. And old friends are dying, like too damn often. I used to have 14 first cousins and now I have 3. And I can't escape the reality that by all odds I will not be on the green side of the grass 10 years from now (although my Mom did make it to almost 104). I remember reading about an old gentleman whose last words, just as he was about to die, were "it all happened so fast" and I understand the sentiment more and more all the time. I still find myself musing about what I would do if I hit the lottery, and then think, what does it matter anymore? I think I need to end this post and get out of the house for awhile while I still can.
Holy crap, I'm 81!
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Congratulations! 23 more and you can top mom's record.
OP
Good things can still happen. I just got a call from the motorcycle dealer. My bike has been sitting there for almost exactly 3 months waiting for a part, and the part came in and he'll bring the bike to me later this week. Too cold out to ride, but I will feel great having it back in the garage with its little brother.
Threespears
Blackhawk
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday!!!
OP
I actually turned 81 last June. But thanks!
Congratulations Vito on another birthday, I am only four years behind you. I lost my wife and then I lost my daughter and then I lost my sister. It seems like all that happens way too fast. My sister's last words as I was sitting by her bed was "it's OK, it'll be all right." So I guess it will be.
Paul B
Hunter
Well I guess I got you beat. I turned 86 last August. Like you, where in hell did all the time go? Been in a ba wreck with my pick up totaled in 2020, heart attck in 2021, colon cancer which I was just told I beat only to find cancer in my liver, pancreas and stomach. That crap keeps trying its best to do me in. I might even whip it again if the insurance company approves the treatment they want to try. Looking forward to 87 and maybe 88 just for mean and ornery cussedness.
Paul B.
Paul B.
I'm still a few years short of 81 but I am the oldest surviving decendant of my Maternal GreatGrandfather. On the paternal side, I'm the only Son of the oldest Son of the oldest Son--sort of the family Patriarch.
well good for you ,at least you're still doing it,,,way better than the alternative. and I agree, where did it all go, and yes it all seems like just yesterday.....
Congratulations 
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OP
Sorry for your losses. I know it is harder when losses happen so close to one another.
Don't feel to bad.
Anyone who turned 82 this year was born closer to the beginning of the civil war than to today!!!
Anyone who turned 82 this year was born closer to the beginning of the civil war than to today!!!
Happy 81 & 1/2 lol
Larryburford
Single-Sixer
I am 58 and probably won't make to 65. I would love to make it to 81. There will be a heck of a good garage sale here one of these days.
OP
Don't feel to bad.
Anyone who turned 82 this year was born closer to the beginning of the civil war than to today!!!
When I turned 78 I realized that when I was born in 1943 it was 78 years since the end of the Civil War. My birth year was the half way mark at that time. Makes me feel even older!
Live each day to the fullest and enjoy it. You have earned the right to enjoy every moment
akbluz
Blackhawk
Anybody who has 2 motorcycles parked in his garage is doing OK in my book.
