At first I was going to write about how I didn't know why I was even thinking about this, but it really only took a half sec of introspection [useful point, that] to figure it out. What with a pulled something or another in my back this past week and a half/two weeks and not being able to work out at all, I feel old and lethargic and just blah. Combined with the fact that the wife of a co-worker died unexpectedly last week, plus my own natural morbid curiousity...
Anyways, a quick scope of the internets shows that when I was born, my life expectancy was about 68 years. Life expectancy for somebody born in 2005 is 76 years.
Life expectancy/remaining years for a 30 year old, back in 2004, which I just about was, is +47 years, which gives me till about 77.
Middle age is loosely defined as the 3rd quarter of your life, so figure out that's 19 years per quarter [what is this, a freaking basketball game?] and you've got = 0-19,19-38,38-57 and 57-76.
So I've got about 40 years left. And will be middle aged in about a year and a half.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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It's Go Time.
"You have to know, not fear, that some day you are going to die. Until you know that and embrace that, you are useless." - Fight Club
Refs: Life Expectancy by Age, 1850–2004 — Infoplease.com
Life Expectancy at Birth by Race and Sex, 1930–2005 — Infoplease.com
Middle age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am a one year old dog. If I am very lucky I might get 20 years. It's a good thing we live in the moment.
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