The runway gets shorter..

Life is like a plane taking off down a runway. As you get older, there's more runway behind you than in front of you. It's inescapable. You see it when celebrities you admire, who are your own age, die. Like David Bowie or Johan Cruyff.

When you see a picture of Harald Schmidt and he looks old, but happy -- and when you're writing about it you pause because you can't remember the name of his funny partner.

There's not so much time left. That's so true. 

What's also true is the great song that The Supremes sang in the sixties. You can't hurry love. It's a game of give and take, somehow between the two forces, life happens. And then you take off for the skies.