Each day is life itself

Al the optimist

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• Jul 3, 2014

• #1

Each day we get up. If a child we go to school. If adults we work (all being equal). Then we have some "free" time.
In our lives we go to school until adults, then we spend years working until retirement (again all being equal).
So I have been thinking one reflects the other. If the day starts at 6am we go to school until 9am and then work until 5pm and then have the ."free" time. If each hour equates to 6 hours 9am equates to 18 years old (the start of adulthood? - yes you can debate that). So 5pm is 66 years old. So after that is retirement. (yes I know you can argue different timescales, but you get the idea?) Now some stay up later than others and some have a longer life than those less fortunate. Who knows how long? So don't put of that longed for Camino! GO! NOW!

 

Last edited: Jul 3, 2014

indyinmaine

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Frances - SJPdP to Santiago - Sept/Oct 2013

• Jul 3, 2014

• #2

Al,
I like your arithmetic, except for getting up at 6 am. By your count if I can make until midnight I'll be 108! Buen Camino.

 

dougfitz

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Past: a few. Last: Gudbrandsdalsleden. Next: TBC

• Jul 3, 2014

• #3

Al, I am keen to take more coffee breaks now that I am the afternoon of my life on your timescale. I don't want to wait till 5pm to travel more, but I am prepared to do a bit more work after the next coffee!

 

M

Metropolly

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• Jul 4, 2014

• #4

By your calculations I should have clocked out for my lunch break three years ago!

 

freescot

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La Plata (2010) Portuguese from Coimbra(2010) Levante (2011) La Lana (2013) Francés from Roncevalles to Molinasaca then the Camino de Invierno (2014)

• Jul 4, 2014

• #5

I knocked off work about 3 o'clock and sat on a sofa until just before 5pm. Then I went outside and discovered a path which leads to many places. It is so wonderful I don't want to leave it but there are sometimes other things to be done. However, I am sure this path is my journey to midnight: I am changing and losing fears, finding a love for all people. I can face the demons inside me with courage and know that if the next moment is hard or painful that, in the next few steps, I will have grown a little bit more, be a bit more wise or humble. There are many others on this path, all going in the same direction.

 

Al the optimist

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• Jul 4, 2014

• #6

Lovely freescot

 

Kanga

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Francés x 5, Le Puy x 2, Arles, Tours, Norte, Madrid, Via de la Plata, Portuguese, Primitivo

• Jul 4, 2014

• #7

I started doing the calculations but keep forgetting the numbers. Then I remember the numbers but can't work out the time. Now I'm not sure why I need to know the time.

 

Al the optimist

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• Jul 4, 2014

• #8

I retired at 20 past 3

 

indyinmaine

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Frances - SJPdP to Santiago - Sept/Oct 2013

• Jul 4, 2014

• #9

The problem is I still haven't retired!