You're Only 48

This episode reflects on a short trip with parents in their seventies, and how that time together quietly surfaces the passage of time — in a slower walking pace, a shift in energy, small things that didn't register before.It touches on a moment mid-trip when the subject of age came up, and the response came back without hesitation: "You're only 48." From a seventy-something vantage point, 48 looks entirely different — still in the middle of things, maybe even at a peak.There's also a pattern worth noticing: in your twenties, people in their thirties seemed like proper adults; in your thirties, forty felt far away. And yet when you actually arrive, it's never quite what you imagined. The same thing is probably happening now.The thought that a future 58-year-old self will look back and wonder, "Was I really only 48 then?" becomes a quiet reason to move — to go to the places, see the people, try the things.A small reflection on perspective, and how the clearest view of where you are often comes from people a little further along the road.