Being in my early 40's a lot of this article resonates with my thinking as it was a few months ago. The piling up of setbacks, aches, the 'is this all there is?

Being in my early 40's a lot of this article resonates with my thinking as it was a few months ago. The piling up of setbacks, aches, the 'is this all there is?'. One day, I was on the porch, trying to wrestle my kids into the car, and a neighbor, in his 80's, health conditions (who was walking laps around the neighborhood for exercise), asked me how I was doing. I said 'surviving'. "Surviving?" he said, "you're living!" with a raised fist. Seeing myself through the eyes of someone much closer to the end has given me some very valuable perspective. Sometimes I think of myself as an 80 yr old man, and think about what it will be like. Makes me pretty damn glad to be alive now, and pretty appreciative of what I do have. Crisis averted.