Live to my age
And your heart will have sucessfully pumped more than 50 million gallons (189 million liters) blood
Trough almost 400 million miles (643 million kilometers) of blood vessels.
Mankind may have made it to Mars
But my old heart has pumped my blodd as far as Jupiter.
And I'm not done yet
There's plenty to celebrate
Even if sometimes in big groups it's a little hard to keep up.
The damaged hair cells in your inner ear beaten up by a lifetime of vibrations
mean that bit by bot the world sounds a little further away.
But I prefer to think about what my body has done
And what it can still do rather than whine about what it can't.
Thank you for coming Today's
I feel blessed for having you all here.
I've had a good life
A long life
Longer than I could ever have imagined
But I did a bit of math recently and I would like to share it with you.
It turns out I've drunk more than 20,000 gallons(75,000 liters) of liquid
And eaten 70 tons of food
Blinked more than 900 million blinks
Slept for more than a quarter of a century(25 years)
And of course lived through 4 billion heartbeats.
But as amazing as I find these numbers
Like the candles on this cake
They are just numbers
the truth is the things that really count can't be counted.
Love
Wonder
Exhilaration
Hope
Kindness
and Joy
So for those things
I want to thank you all
and I'd lime raise a glass
To life it's one hell of a ride
To life.
Now, are we going to cut this cake or just look at it.
4 billion heartbeats
How many more to come
Who knows
But just as sure as there was a first beat
Someday for certain there will be a last.
When the last beat comes
My death will begin
My lings will rise and fall one last time
My blood will stop circulating
One by one m major organs close down.
But then for a few seconds
They tell me I'll have brain activity associated with heightend states of consciousness.
I wonder what I will see.
Ours is the journey of a lifetime
A transformation beyond imagination
Against odds no gambler would take a living breathing miracle
Just like billions of miracles that came before
And billions more to come
On the path we all travel
From cradle to grave.
