A wake up call
Column 8 is a (sometimes) amusing, usually wry column that appears in the Sydney Morning Herald. I look at it every now and again. Today one of the items was actually pretty moving.
“Some thoughts on turning 89,” submits Col McDonald, of Lindfield, via the nostalgic medium of the typewriter. “Not the best time of life. You don’t look good or feel good and (unless you’re careful) don’t smell good. You spend half the night awake – remembering what you should have done but didn’t, or what you shouldn’t have done but did. Sometimes you cry, ‘Where did I go wrong’ and a reply comes, ‘How much time do we have?’ “