Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Thursday 31 March 2016
Ageing Well?
I ran into an old friend and colleague today.
He asked me in all seriousness whether I had retired yet.
I can't imagine you retired. No matter how ill you get you still have all that intellectual energy you had when you were 18, it is just that you can no longer walk 10 mile round trips of an evening. You are a force of nature.
How old was he?
ReplyDelete60-ish. That is what rankles most. He is retired.
DeleteI can't imagine you retired. No matter how ill you get you still have all that intellectual energy you had when you were 18, it is just that you can no longer walk 10 mile round trips of an evening. You are a force of nature.
ReplyDeleteYou are very kind.
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