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The passing of time has always been a bit of an issue for me. And when I was 12, I remember going to the baseball diamond with

Christian and we threw the ball around. It was on the eve of your 13th birthday. Yeah, and I got really emotional.

I remember walking to the baseball field with you and you were so melancholy. You were this 12 year old kid, pre puberty. Yeah.

And you were like, this is the last night of my childhood. This is it. And to celebrate, I just want to do something that kids do.

And they throw the ball around. That's what you wanted to do. You're your wish on the last night of your childhood.

To like, to play catch with me. But I remember thinking it's the last time I'll be able to do that. Right.

Right. I'll now be an adult. I'll be 13. I'll be a man. And the irony is we are middle-aged men now when we play catch with each other all the time.

Throw the ball around all of it. So I guess it wasn't the last night of your childhood after all. Just the beginning.

Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream. Oh, do do do do. Shibu. You're listening to Life is Short. I'm your grown up middle-aged man.

Middle-aged kid, man boy. Justin Long. Life could be a dream sweetheart. Do do do do do. Shibu.

And with me as always, as he was, the dawn of my 13th year.

14th year. 13th birthday. Yeah. 14th year. Yeah. Christian Long.

Bye. We still play baseball. But I still have a complex too about it's taken it on a different form, but about time moving on and getting older.

I mean, as people who listen to the show probably know they're acutely aware. I read an article recently about adults playing the concept of play.

Yeah. And how important it is for adults to continue to play and how that's an element of an adult's life that's very often overlooked.

And all the things it does for you. I mean, emotionally and mentally. Oh, I bet. It's so good. So just playing catch with your friend

is as an adult is a very healthy thing to do. It's still fun. It's still fun. I don't do it enough. I don't do team sports enough. But the last time I was just talking about this because I sprained my ankle last year.

First when I was doing on stage and then I made it really bad later that day when I tried to play basketball with a bunch of like kids half my age. They were like 19 year olds.

And it was the goofiest move I tried to avoid a ball and I like hopped on my foot and I just came down on it so weird and I was too embarrassed to be like people were like, hey man, like subjects was hailed man probably should be playing with you okay.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it hurts so bad. And I continued to play on it for which probably weeks has invaded it. And I like hobbled out of there.

And I was injured for a couple of weeks. I was while I was doing this play. So I, yeah, the body just starts breaking down. But up until that point, it had been so fun playing with these kids.

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