Time sure flies when you’re having fun – or just getting on

I am 56 now,” Jose Mourinho tells his young (and maybe soon to be ex) Spurs star Dele Alli in ‘All or Nothing’ Amazon Prime’s new fly-on-the-wall about Tottenham Hotspur, “and yesterday...yesterday I was 20.”

“And today I’m 56. Time flies. And I think one day you will regret if you don’t reach what you can reach.”

The artist formerly known as the Special One was making a point to the inconsistent midfielder about constantly striving to reach full potential, because life passes you by quicker than you could ever contemplate.

And whatever about hitting the top of our own game, we can all empathise with the first sentiment – one day you’re 20, the next day your son is.

One day, you stand with the world as your oyster – and in the blink of an eye, you turn into your old man. Or an old man, at least.

Of course, Mourinho at 56 is infinitely more successful than the young 20 year old multi-lingual idealist with little more than dreams of being a football coach.

And there’s nothing for the rest of us to suggest that you’re at your very best at 20 and sliding down a cliff at 56 – but it’s the fact that one day, the world lies out before you and the next you’re looking in the rear view mirror.

Even Jeremy Clarkson – a person most people perceive as an eternal boy wrapped up in an unkempt man’s clothing – is bothered by ageing….and he fairly nailed it in a recent Sunday Times column.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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