Those sobering thoughts that come out of nowhere and stop you in your tracks

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Its my silver wedding this year.
I got married q young but I've just had the realisation that in another 25 years I'll be the same age ddad was when he died!

I'm 33. In ten years I'll be the same age my mum was when she committed suicide. I can't get my head around being older than she ever was / will be.

Due to an age-gap, DP and I will only be in the same decade age-wise once every 10 years. Next year I'll be 39 and he'll be 30, not to be repeated until the year 2030 when I'll be 49 and he'll be 40.

It's not a tragic sort of sobering. Just slightly uncomfortable!

I have been friends with one person for 65 years. One of us will be at the other's funeral.

That 2/3rds of the earth's surface is covered in water, its literally the most abundant substance on earth, it fills lakes and rivers, flows from our taps, even falls from the sky. It's essential for life and without it we would die in a matter of days.

And yet nobody, not even the most brilliant scientists on earth, have even the faintest idea of where all that water came from, or how so much of it ended up here.

I have less years left to live than I have already lived