...these feelings come to all of us who are lucky enough to live so long. They accompany the ultimately unavoidable realization that our basic relation to time—which is to say to possibility, to memory—has changed. The former diminishes as the latter grows, and there is nothing to be done. At a certain point in adulthood the weights seem equally distributed, the balance is at rest. And then, a moment later, it begins to tip, imperceptibly at first, then more obviously. (Sven Birkerts, " 'Live All You Can,' " in Reading Life: Books for the Ages, 2007, Graywolf Press, p. 156)
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