by Tomorrow's Man
Twenty-Three Thousand, Five Hundred Feet Over Indiana...
“Don't look so grim, son. You’ve got your whole life ahead of you.”
Why did this old man just say that to me? Is he trying to scare me? Is this some nasty ploy the elderly are using to interfere with the joys of the youthful?
Of course I have my whole life ahead of me. If I die three seconds after typing the last word of this sentence, I had my whole life ahead of me until that moment.
“You’ve got your whole life ahead of you.” This is a phrase that should only ever be said to people over 80. Why damn the young to thinking about their whole lives ahead of them? It’s hard enough just keeping the engines attached to the wings of this plane through my sheer mental energy!