Well myself, I'm another of the speed freaks (not the drug :P )
I try to keep busy, and go go go lol. Also I try to grip onto technology, learn it work with it. Go with the flow you could say
Hard part about living just 50 yrs ago, you could get a small disease and possibly die (smallpox anyone?). Well we consider it small nowadays but not back then!!
There are ups and downs though.
I would guess there are several around here that would feel similarly than you