I would not agree that 60 is old. Not in your case anyway. It’s subjective, age, in part, though. Some people are more trapped chronologically than others. I’ll offer my father as example. He is 66. But he looks and acts and lives as if he is 20, 30 years older than that, as a result of hard work alloyed and or allied depending on how you look at it, with over 50 years of severe and chronic alcoholism, substance abuse, heavy smoking, malnutrition; a lifetime of self abuse (and abuse of others) and neglect have ravaged him. He weighs 97 pounds and can not be without his oxygen tanks, more pills than he or anybody else can keep track of, can not go anywhere or do anything except visit his doctors and the hospital, more and more of his bodily functions shut down annually, and he is an incredibly pessimistic, negative, asshole who has always had and still does have, a piss poor attitide about everything, and as most of us are aware attitude is as much a part of good health as anything else. (After spending time with him, I feel like I need to go into detox just to rid myself of his negative vibes.) My point is that you and he are on opposite ends of a continuum, with you being on the beneficial end, brother. You are a young 60, he, an ancient, decrepit, corpselike 66. Lifestyle, choices, attitude…........sure, genetics too. But it’s apparent you choose life. He has been dying since he was in his 20’s, when he was first hospitalized for his alcoholism. My brothers and I refer to him as “The Longest Running Suicide Attempt in History”. I know that sounds cruel, but try being that man’s child; it has not been an easy thing to watch someone do that to themselves for 40 years, nor to have been caught in the middle at times, by proxy. I say that not by way of complaint; I am who I am because of all of my life experience and I’d not change any of it or wish to be anybody else. I am merely using him as an example of what is the opposite of you. How age is subjective. You chose life. He never did. Good for you: you’re young at heart, your arteries are clean, YOU have a daughter who adores you instead of one who merely tolerates you because it’s the right thing to do, a girlfriend who adores you, a foot that WILL heal in time, and a healthy attitude about life and living. You’re not a statistic (ie, living til 80, 75 percent of your life being over yada yada yada….......) My father is a statistic. One of his own making, just as you are NOT. I understand why you’re thinking more about mortality right now. We all have milestone moments when it becomes more of a consideration. But honestly, you and life are good friends, I’d say, so whatever time you have left whether it’s 20, 30 40 years, the quality of it is going to be wayyyyyyyy better than if you were on the same end of the continuum as my old man. Keep on carping that diem Unc….....