AS DAYS GO BY......

When you are young you always think that time goes quickly and that you cannot wait until later on in life (read-retirement) when people tell you that you will have so much time to yourself to do whatever you want. Let me make a formal announcement- THEY ALL LIE. When we get older and retire the days are cut by 25% and reduced to only 18 hours each instead of the accepted 24 hours per day- the rationale for this is that we tend to do things slower as we get older( three hours lost) we tend to sleep longer or take nanny naps ( two hours lost) and the final hour is spent trying to remember what we did for the last 12 hours. All in all, time flies when you are retired ,to a point where you cannot afford to sit and read something for an hour because this is an hour that you will never get back in your life going forward. Giving up smoking is similar in that all I wanted to do before was to have another ciggy. Ciggies always meant going outside of the house and sitting down (mainly on the infamous lounge-see previous comments) and just relaxing. Without the desire to have a cigarette I find now I dont have any desire to go outside the house and I spent hours and hours more on the computer doing things like these blogs. Its like a kid who wants to spend time in his room with the XBox or similar. One becomes more insular and more capable of not leaving the house.

Am I sounding more agitated,contankerous and pissed off with things generally?. Are these tablets finally giving me problems with some well documented side affects? Did I get out of bed on the wrong side this morning or maybe I am just letting of some steam. I will let others judge.