A lifetime seems a pretty roomy place when you’re a kid: plenty of time to enjoy a leisurely childhood, followed by years and years of learning and practising how to do stuff, before Mum cuts off the pocket money and you need to get a job and worry about all the things that grown-ups worry about
And then one day you find yourself at a party discussing your acute or chronic health issues with a group of friends who look awfully like … well … old people. They've got wrinkles and graying hair and so have you. That’s when you realise that a lifetime isn't quite as long as you had once supposed.