How many of you feel that time is flashing by in old age? I find it difficult to comprehend that I have been retired for 12 years, just what happened to those 4,300 + days? 12 years before I retired I was a sprightly 53 and the world was a different place. This has come more evident to me in my writing. Often my wife will ask me to something and I reply "In 5 minutes when I have finished this paragraph." 30 minutes later she will tell me she has done the job herself. I of course have been convinced that I am not far over my 5 minute estimate, time has flown.
Time is running away from me. If I rush, I will have to start all over again as the post or other work will not be what I wanted to say, so I have begun to scratch out (electronically) what I have written, sometimes to pick it up again later, but more often to have revised my ideas and not bothered, consigning the part completed text to the bin.
My sister suffers from the same problem. Since we are hundreds of miles apart we speak on a Sunday afternoon and quite often one of us will exclaim that it only seems like yesterday we spoke last. Covid - 19 has proven a boon to me as it has introduced an element of timelessness into my life, someday if I am lucky, I may wake up and find it has all been a dream and I will walk out of the front door once more into freedom, the real world having returned.
Something tells me I am dreaming of Vera Lynn's Bluebirds, which never flew over Dover.
Mike.X