The Reality of Longevity

I'm sitting here writing this with a walking boot on my foot...

It's been there most of the day going on two weeks. As strange as it may sound, for me, recovering from heart surgery was easier than this, because the goal was to walk.

With this, while there are no restrictions, walking – as in walking... the kind of walking I like to do every day – is impossible.

Yet, here I am, and I see this New York Times article headlined, "My Running Club, My Everything."

And there's this photo by Ben Rayner of the Times showing all these smiling people running...