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Hi Jeremy
I am glad you have such a great attitude.
I have met men who at 50 I would call old..
I am 72 and that number just seems wrong as I dont feel that age...my crook legs restrict me a bit because they feel like I am up to my knees in boiling water..all the time...I dont think of it as pain anymore but it is just annoying cause it is always there..I dont take pain killers simply because I dont want my driving impaired and to get reliable feed back when I should rest. ..they really start to burn to the point where I have to back off...if that were masked I think I could over do things.
I do find astronomy difficult because I am not too flash with computing but rather than throw my hands up as old folk do I simply grind away until this or that problem is overcome and just keep chipping away...addmittedly I am slower but I get there and frankly looking around me at people half my age I find most of them do not know as much about computers as I do.
And I do think it is important to keep educating yourself..I study history (and by necessity with such a pursuit religion) non stop ...and I like to read about cosmology and physics both classic and the other stuff☺ even maths which I am usless at..but I read the index of maths books to know what they talk about at least...with a realisation that each line of an index probably represents a multitude of lifetime works to develop that branch of maths...and music..particularly stuff I dont like simply to know about trends...last night I was into the world of rc car racing and how to run in a motor and the associated complexity of that world...
But the way it goes...someone says I want to do this or that and this is a signal for every negative person he knows to start offerring advice...when I wanted to be the oldest man to sail around the world no one said to me " now that is a great idea" and all they could say was it would be too hard..too hard in this day and age of push button navigation and food in a can and unsinkable boats...the money could be a problem but hey you have croud funding these days...I decided against it only because I just cant fit it in...I want to spend my time with my Dad and daughter really.
Jeremy you certainlt are not old and hopefully you never grow old.
Alex
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