Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

If you're being serious I went through a phase like this a few years ago. I was doing stupid stuff regularly, like taking my age and working out how much of my life I've probably lived based on percentage of life expectancy. The worst was at night when I can't sleep. When I'm out actually doing stuff I couldn't care less if I dropped dead in the sense that I don't fear it then.

I wonder if people worry about it less or more as they get older.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.