I'm still overwhelmed by all the things I'm losing, and have yet to discover the compensations of age.
The compensations, though, are considerable: a subsidy that last year amounted to £2.8 billion ($4.2 billion) in cash direct from the British public in the form of a licence fee.Yet the disadvantages of being a public-service broadcaster are becoming ever more apparent.
If this is hardgoing for a walker, it is harder for a cyclist, bent double to force his frail machine uphill, battling not only tendonitis and exhaustion but the frequent cold and rain of the high mountains.Yet there are heady compensations, too.
Above all, there are the immigrants: California still pioneers America's demographic future.And, besides, there are compensations in being out of the loop.
Yet this need not happen if the deal is crafted to include compensations for Serbia: for instance, a fast track towards EU membership, or concessions on such matters as visas for foreign travel.One idea is to impose a deal that can be presented differently in Belgrade and Pristina.
But few others are on the horizon.There are, however, compensations for Wall Street's finest.
There are big compensations: housing, oil and basic foods are all hugely subsidised, and the government claims that Libya's free education and medical care are among the best in the world.
Children, especially girls, are kidnapped and held for ransom.But the end of the dictatorship has huge compensations.
But the prolonged race does have some compensations.
But Mr Krzanich reckons there are compensations, because labour and utilities are much cheaper than on the coast.But not everyone is convinced.
From a society that valued the creation of a unique storehouse of ideas in each individual, man is moving to a socially constructed mind that values speed and group approval over originality and creativity.True, there are compensations: better hand-eye co-ordination, pattern recognition and the very multitasking skills the machines themselves require.
