Your Own Mortality

When I passed 50 while sitting on the beach with nothing to do but soak up rays and think, I was thinking about how I had outlived both of my grandmothers (one died at 39ish, one died at 49ish) and had the sudden realization that subconsciously I had always thought I'd die young (even though Mom made it to her mid 80s) so THAT'S when I started to take more seriously my mortality and start to eat better, exercise more, and start a skin care routine if I wasn't going to die before I was 50.