From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades. The decade of my fifties had been decisive because I became aware that almost everybody was younger than I. The decade of my sixties was the most intense because of my suspicion that I no longer had the time to make mistakes. My seventies were frightening because of a certain possibility that the decade might be the last.
From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades. The decade of my fifties had been decisive because I became aware that almost everybody was younger than I. The decade of my sixties was the most intense because of my suspicion that I no longer had the time to make mistakes. My seventies were frightening because of a certain possibility that the decade might be the last.