whom I knew very well, who was born in 1870. She'd be almost 155, if still alive.

Both my Grandfathers were born in the early 1880's; I knew them, as well as my Grandmothers, born in the mid-1880's and 1890. I recall in 1959, a lot of media hoopla occurred over the death of a Walter Williams, purportedly, the last survivor of the Civil War, who was 117, born in 1842! Imagine that!

A lot of us older grads can recall some of the earliest Clemson alumni, visiting the campus. Nationally, Presidents like Herbert Hoover were still alive in my lifetime, and I've been around since the days of Harry Truman in the White House.

Lastly, here's a real leveler for us all: every single person on the earth, alive right now, will be gone in less than 130 years, meaning no one will see the year 2155. Think of that, and when doing so, then consider how all the bitterness, hatred, envy, spite, etc. really mean nothing at all! How all the things we seek, crave, possess mean nothing at all. That what is really important are other people...all types of people from all walks of life, because all of us are really in the same boat, heading down the same river with a known destination!