Old Age

A land tortoise recently died in India that is estimated to be around 250-years old.

Let that sink in a bit.

For over two centuries, a tortoise simply was, eating flowers and watching the world change around him. If their estimate is right, he was born around 1755, making him older than our country.

If anything, it's a lesson that this moment is but a drop in the sea of time. What seems an eternity to us is merely a blip on the temporal radar screen.

And for the skeptics out there, don't worry- there is currently a tortoise living at the Australia Zoo who was captured by Charles Darwin. Her name is Harriet.

She's still a bit young. Her age? 176.