Yes, often. After my sweetheart died I’ve become very aware of time running out to be alive and healthy.

A little bit. I’m almost 30 and I’m nowhere near getting married or “settling down” or having children. My parents were 27 and 28 when they got married and 30 when they had their first child. So of course I’m thinking about that and questioning if it’s something I want or not.

^^I would answer that based only on my own experience of the same in the hopes that you would fare better and potentially be happier for it.

Get married. Have a kid or two.

Having these thoughts and feelings of ambivalence now almost guarantees that you’re going to end up having this big empty hole inside you in the future if you don’t take that leap.

Trust me, a complete stranger, on this.

The most exciting aspect in this is…you still have time!

Yes.

After I was diagnosed with sever heart disease in June, my life expectancy dropped considerably.

My mother is still alive at 96; her dad lived until he was 97. I figured I had at least 20 more good active years ahead. Now it looks like it might be five to ten, and with restricted activity.

Ah no Zenvelo…

@zenvelo With modern medicine and jellies with you along the way, we’ll all make it to 30 more years. At least.

@zenvelo
Not necessarily, my late father was told that he would die within two years, but he proved them wrong and lived for another 30 years or so.

I am surrounded by aging seniors who didn’t look after themselves and partied all of there lives,and thus see the deterioration in there lives now.

( they still haven’t learned that drinking heavily is counterproductive to a good healthy long life)?

This is a constant reminder that one day it could be me like that, so I am trying to get ALL

the goals that I want to complete before anything such as regular ageing or even getting hit

by a car can derail all that I want to accomplish.

The life expectancy for men is 76 years, 2 months. 50% of men will die before then, 50% after.
Life is a crap shoot.
Yes, I have felt like that.

I did feel that way when I was in my late forties, but at eighty I don’t.

@Bill1939 Great to hear from you again! :)

I had a heart attack two months ago. I now see myself in the high-risk category for coronavirus. Before that I thought I was in the high-tolerance category and welcomed the virus if it gave me immunity.

My mental map of my life timeline has been drastically shortened.

God you Fluther guys. I love you. Just wanted to get that out there.

^^Cooked. According to the net.

Yes. Mostly with romantic relationships. As in “I know I want kids eventually. Can I afford to spend more time with a guy who’s working through his own stuff, and not quite ready to be a dad?” I ended up deciding that I could use the time to work on my own issues, and I'm glad I did.