>A couple of years ago I came to the same realization about my allegedly TBR books -- that some of them I will never get to. The one that bothered me for some reason was "Remembrance of Things Past", which I have in a nice edition. Have had it for about 25 years and have never gotten more than a few chapters into it. (For those who don't know it, it's about 3000 pages long). Reading it was something I wanted to do before I die and now I doubt it will happen.

I also sometimes have this illusion that I may never die. But than it passes.

OK, just kidding, but it's one of the signs of going over the hill, when you have learned how much time it takes to get to do some things, and then look at what you wanted to do, and see that it won't all fit. OTOH, as they say, it doesn't matter how is it when you get there, as long as the trip was worthwhile.