As someone who has lived most of her natural lifespan already (74), I can appreciate your blog from a particular perspective. While I can think of reasons for living longer (I am still useful to my family and to others, I hope), still I find unattractive the image of grabbing for more life when so many younger people are losing theirs.

Sometimes I tell my husband we have won the life lottery (he is four months older), and we wonder at that. Why us? It seems so whimsical and unfair. But then, fair is not part of life's equation. So, what to do? Use our gift the best we can. Try to make a difference somehow, somewhere. Help an animal. Help a person we may never meet. Don't be greedy. We don't need more, of anything.

I love being on this platform because for someone my age, with my rather limited physical potential, I can reach out. I can make a tiny difference to someone, somewhere. I keep that in mind as I blog, vote and comment. Infinitesimally significant as my actions may be, still they may cheer someone, encourage someone.

I'm sorry you have been ill. That is a challenge more people face than most of us realize. We think of ordinary as being well. But a large part of the world's population deals with an impairment of one kind or another. The challenge is to live productively and enjoy life despite that impairment.

Wishing you many years of peaceful, productive life. Whatever measures you take to achieve that, all the best.