Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
The Fifty Plus (50+) list seems to top the BF lists in percentage of posters who enjoy patting themselves on the back about their alleged accomplishment in "dropping" others, be it in passing strangers on a bike trail, or registering "better" health metrics than other people their age.
A wiser and kinder man would have written nothing .
He would have had the wisdom to understand that we're all aware of our mortality and inevitable frailty.
We've seen our parents move on in pain and weakness and yes we will also.
These anecdotes are just another way of delaying this one more minute, one more hour , one more day.
You'll understand better when you're our age.