Measured by Your Death Date
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★THERE are many people today who consider themselves young. If I take a group of twenty-somethings and ask them if they are young, most, if not all, would raise their hands. There is only one problem. You cannot measure your age by your birthday. You can only measure your age by your death date. See, if you are thirty-five and you’re only going to live to be forty, then you’re an old man. If you are forty-five and going to live to be ninety, then you’re still pretty young. You can only measure how old you are by the time you have left before you die. Now, who knows when they are going to die? Nobody. So no one really knows who’s old and who’s not.
The point
Age cannot be measured by birthday alone but by the time remaining before death; since no one knows their death date, no one truly knows their age.