That is a wonderful comment.
Does my life seem a lot longer if I am almost twice as old as you? I don’t think it seems twice as long. It is a bit like twice as much life is squeezed into the same amount of time, but it’s not that either. If one looks at life as exponential (base 2), or whatever one should call it, if I look back 32 years, it should be the same as you looking back 16 years; if I look back 32+16 years to age 16 it should be like you looking back 16+8 years to age 8 or 10; if I look back 32+16+8+4+2+1 years, it should be like you looking back 16+8+4+2+1+1 years (oops, there’s something a little wrong with the math!). So I just get one more segment, and am perceptually only 1/6 older than you. Maybe it’s somewhere between 1 1/6 and 2; maybe use base 1 1/2!
Glad you had such a nice group of old relatives (not very old)! We had a smaller Fieldsized group of old relatives, which was nice too.
Pyerezvon