>> achievements are never "gone" you cannot take them away.
Quite Zero (if you are fortunate enough to have any that is). Perhaps SteelSpark is suffering a fit of melancholy (or 'pessimism' as rationalists call it).
Even ageing isn't as terrible as it's made out to be, although frankly it isn't favourite and as my late mother-in-law observed when approaching ninety, 'old age isn't for wimps'.
Perhaps I am lucky but although I have a pacemaker I don't feel all that feeble, although I wouldn't play rugger or try to carry a piano with two other chaps these days. All of that sets in quite gradually and you sort of get used to it. One has to hope that cancer and Parkinson's hold off as long as possible, and that slight forgetfulness doesn't mutate into fully-formed gagadom without anyone really noticing.
One of the good things about being older is that you really get to know and understand a few things. You know what you think and why instead of being in constant doubt, not always perhaps but more often. You are less likely to be taken in by flimflam and bluster provided you aren't becoming senile.
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