I'll be 57 next Wednesday and sometimes I say to myself, "I can't be 57, my DAD was 57!"
A friend and I used to discuss how at 57, we didn't feel like our Dad's did at 57. Both of our fathers served in WW2 for 4 years in the Pacific, came home, started a family, and worked the rest of their lives. Maybe it's a parent-child
thing, but our Dads were really mature at that age where we termed ourselves as "punk kids" still.
Anyway, getting old is tough...you gotta take your medicine every day, watch after stuff that as a youth you didn't think twice about.....it's a full time job! Still, it's a great time to as Rich noted, "be headed toward the slide down"!