When you are 30 and walking on the beach the waves gently tickle your ankles.
At 50 the waves occasionally bathe your knees but you don't think much of it.
Later you notice that the waves are deeper and sometimes lift you up and gently set you down.
One day you are picked up and are buoyant and float for a while, your toes touching the bottom now and then; not an unpleasant feeling. Later a large wave picks you up and carries you out some distance. You are still buoyant but don't touch bottom very often. Eventually your buoyancy is lost and your are treading water. You don't know how long you can keep it up, but you aren't too concerned
Death appears to be on your mind...Those thoughts also come to me, but perhaps less often.
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