The Surreal Life

No...not the stupid reality TV show. My life! I don't know why I've always had this strange feeling that even though the world around me is changing and aging, I somehow have this unlimited access to the 'fountain of youth'. It is odd and perhaps it's just a situation where I've become too subjective with things. However, things have seemed so surreal to me lately. It started about a week ago as I addressed my father's birthday card. My parents have been retired for 6 years now and they winter in AZ. I was sending out Christmas cards and his 65th birthday card and(as if his turning 65 wasn't surreal enough)I was addressing it in care of the resort they camp at with their 5th wheel. It just struck me in a moment that I wasn't living in this little bubble of protection anymore, but that my parents have been aging, with myself right alongside. I just had trouble grasping the concept that they were 'retired old people'. Then, the other day my brother phoned me to say that a close friend of his had lost his father. Is it that time already...time for us to start watching the parents of our friends die? Granted, he was only 60 and it appears he may have dropped from an aneurysm or a massive something because they found him just sitting upright in bed, deader than a doornail. It just hits a person though, very weird stuff. Guess it catches up to us all eventually! Live each day to its' fullest because you never know when it will be your last!