I Don't Want to Grow Old [Growing Old]

I've come to dread birthdays now. I'm getting older and it's really freaking me out. Just feels like yesterday I was 18. Where did the time go? I'm afraid time will run out before I figure out how to really live instead of just exist. It's not a good feeling.

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Ynotisay · M

I remember reading a great story about a hospice nurse who had been with countless people when they passed. And she said that, far and away, the most common thing she'd hear them say at the end of the life is, "I wish I didn't work so much."
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