It’s the Life in Your Years

Even as he gets older, Bob lives his life to the full, doing precisely what he wants, when he wants to do it.

If he wants to spend his day curled up in a ball watching the world go by, he will do so. If he wants to spend it playing or chasing things around the house, he will do so. He is living on his own terms, oblivious to the passing of time.

Sometimes I look at him and think he is an embodiment of another old saying: ‘It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.’