Listen and be amazed. Today's 70-year-olds are the 30-year-olds of yesteryear. This is what you read in the mainstream media and discovered by so-called researchers. They compared life expectancy in industrialised countries and came to this astonishing conclusion.
Boys born in Germany today live to an average age of 78, and girls even to 83. Of course, we live much longer than previous generations. This is due to better nutrition, better hygiene, and, of course, at least in Germany, we didn't have a war, which, as we all know, quickly sweeps away young people.
This purely numerical perspective, however, ignores what a 70-year-old today simply cannot ignore: old age comes at a price, including brittle bones, deteriorating eyesight, poor hearing, etc.
You know this yourself from your own experience or from observing 70-year-olds. So no way, 70=30. If you're 30, enjoy life to the fullest, because at 70, many things, no, most things, are no longer possible.
Here's a song by my idol, Johnny Cash, from 2003, recorded shortly before his death.
Hurt
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain, the only thing that´s real.
The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting.
Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything.
What have I become my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all. My empire of dirt.
I will let you down. I will make you hurt.
I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar´s chair.
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair.
Beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear.
You are someone else. I am still right here.
What have I become my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all. My empire of dirt.
I will let you down. I will make you hurt.
If I could start again, a million miles away,
I would keep myself. I would find a way.
And so that the whole thing doesn't end so sadly, here's a song from earlier times. 1983, Johnny Cash on "Wetten dass / German TV" A true historical document
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