I saw a sign yesterday – 13 weeks till Christmas! – can you believe it? Why is it that the older we get, the quicker the years race by. You’d think that as our mind gets slower, our eyes blurrier and our body worn out – time would slow down, not speed up.

It’s always bothered me that the majority of us are born poor. We have to work through the best years of our lives so that when we are old, with battered knees & tired bodies we have enough money to do all the things we should’ve done when we were young. If I was the designer of life, I would have us born with everything – health, wealth, intellect and happiness, and reverse the process. As you use your gifts of birthright and age, then and only then, you would have to start working. Wouldn’t it make more sense to be out travelling and enjoying yourself in your 20’s, 30’s and 40’s and leave the rhythm of work to your 60’s & 70’s?

I’m sure you could come up with a million and one reasons why in reality this couldn’t work, economically, mathematically, socially and anthropologically(?) but on the surface, I reckon it would be a great plan.