I can identify with Marcy as I am 70+ and the oldest female in my family. Life is indeed getting very short. However it is way too short to not get busy and try to accomplish the important things I had planned on doing in my life. I had planned on being very educated, humorous, and leaving several handmade heirlooms to my children, while setting a great example of a compassionate loving woman. I think now most of my examples are of what not to do. I had wanted to be an effective Bible school teacher. I try to laugh a lot and pass on humor to others; I try to learn or relaearn something every day; I study my Bible in depth and teach when the chance occurs although ill health made me give up my class. I am working on the heirloom items: quilting and paintings. Time has been a thief and I don't have any time left to waste. If I am to finally become the woman I want to be I have to really work at it now. I don't have time to squander being bitchy or lazy or in a bad mood. I've already spent enough time in the years past doing that - now my time needs to be spent doing things that are productive. How will my children remember me? How will God greet me? I've got to keep my priorities straight because I have a lot less time than I did 5 years ago. And time is going by so FAST and I get so TIRED with so much LESS done each day. I'm truly sorry for the time I wasted when I was young and thought I was immortal and old age was so far in the future. I need to pray more - so much of me needs to improve - so let me wind up this discourse with one more sentence. When we are older we need to ration our time. It becomes as precious as water in the desert and should not to be wasted. So don't quit, don't give up. You don't have enough time for either one of those things.