Thinking about four lines in a book I read

Over What Hill? (notes from the pasture) ~ by Effie Leland Wilder, 1996, fiction (South Carolina), 180 pages, 9/10

"Senescence begins

And middle age ends

The day your descendants

Outnumber your friends" (p. 93).

Oh, my goodness!  I'm there.  Counting:  3 children + 7 grandchildren + 6 great-grandchildren (so far) = 16.  Yikes, do I have 16 friends left?  Okay, so I keep making friends, but can I actually name sixteen of them right now?  Hmmm, Shirley from 6th grade . . . Oh, wait!  I'm 85, so I'm long past "middle age."  Also, I still have friends (new as well as old friends), so I'll take a deep breath and smile now.