As I age, I realise that time speeds by faster. A year in prison now would a much smaller punishment than when I was in my teens, when a year seemed like forever.
Perhaps we need an age-related transform to prison sentences.
Perhaps we need an age-related transform to prison sentences.
Count the number of good years you have left, with the health+energy to do what you want. I heard this week that the knees are failing on a relative of a friend, which is my age.
When you were young, the years stretched in front of you, endlessly.
These days I think things like "Japan is so fascinating that I would love to live there a while, but I just can't use a work year to learn the language and the writing system. I need that time for other things."