An Old Man All His Life

Henry William Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving first world war servicemen, has died at the age of 113. Incredibly he was 73, already old, when the first man walked upon the moon in 1969. He even got to meet his first great-great-great grandchild. I cannot imagine how it must feel, what it must do to a person, to live that long. He has shown us all, for if he could have seen, way back in the sixties, when he was already an old man, that he still had 40 more years left, his back may have straightened, his stride may have quickened and his horizons might have re-broadened, and he might have felt once again a sensation of still being very young, and of still having a long way to go.