So How Old am I?
About this time 60 years ago, my Father had a twinkle in his eye, along with a perky move in his trousers, and as a result I was conceived. Yes! It might be hard for some of you that know me in the real World, but I was conceived about this time 60 years ago. :O I find it quite shocking.
But it brought to my mind, not for the first time, of just how old am I? And this applies to all of us, of course.
So, using conventional dating, I wont be 60 until next June. And I wont go into the dangerous area of whether you are considered a living individual at various times between conception and birth. I am thinking about my DNA age. So how old am I?
Well half of my creation came from DNA material, sperm, from my Father that was only a few hours or days old. So that makes half of me now 60. But the other half, my Mother's egg. What about that? Well Mum was born with the egg that would eventually become half of me. So that means that half of me is over 90! (Mum will be 90 in conventional terms next month). But of course her Mum was born with the egg that would become my Mum, so does that mean that half of me is actually 110?
But of course my Mum's Mum's Mum, was born with the egg that would become my Mum's Mum. And my Mum's Mum's Mum's Mum, was ........
So the way I look at it, half of me is now 60, and the other half of me goes back all the millions, no billions of generations and millions, if not billions of years, back to the first lifeform that produced and egg that survived long enough for at least one of its offspring to survive long enough to produce an egg, that survived long enough to .....
Life is quite mind boggling really?
