Stick to the present.

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

As I’ll be 76 in a couple of weeks should that be seen as living a very long life? Looking back to the year I was born I should think that probably would be about average.

I have aunts who lived well into their 90’s but apart from one they weren’t in great health.

Living a long life to me depends on the state of my health. It also means the joy of seeing your grandchildren and perhaps great grandchildren growing up.

Walking and trying to stay fit makes the prospect of a long life ( 90ish) more realistic, but in my last blog I wrote that I prefer not to look ahead and to focus on the present. I’ll stick to that and take each day as it comes, hopefully healthy and cognitively alert.