Fauja Singh (born April 1, 1911) is a Sikh marathon runner in his nineties from India who is a world-record holder in his age bracket. His current personal best time for London marathon is 6 hours 2 minutes, and his marathon record, for age 90-plus, is 5 hours 40 minutes.

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Every time I come to work and meet my patients; the first thing they tell me is: the time is running so fast, that we are unable to finish what we wanted to do.

My simple answer to such comments is that: when time runs fast, we live longer !.

I think it is probably true, because when we feel that the time passes so quickly; we don’t feel its burden. The time load is so heavy if we are waiting, or if any of us is nervous. expecting bad news, waiting for pay-day, or some one waits for a date.

The longer we wait, the more tired we get, until we feel tired and we start yawning. If such wait happens every day, then any one of us would feel the burden of the time, and we get older very quickly; let alone getting demoralised, demoted, less motivated, and eventually depressed.

On the other hand; if we are busy happily doing things then the time passes very quickly, and get older but we never feel it. We can reach a centurion but we would feel much younger.

People will live easily up to 150 years, but they will be able to continue working, and entertaining; and this will be a common thing over the next 10-20 years I reckon.

The question remains: is it the quantity or the quality what really matters?. My simplest answer to that: it is both, when we can afford it !.