Thank You!
Feb. 1st, 2013 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisThanks to all for the birthday well-wishes. Because of work commitments and mild case of the sniffles, I haven't exactly been in much of a celebratory mood but am looking forward to a birthday dinner with the guys tonight and/or tomorrow evening.
I'm now 46, which is turning out to be a pretty good age to be. Many kids I grew up with didn't reach voting age so I consider myself lucky. I've had a few health stumbles over the past few decades but they've been relatively minor and easily treated with current medical technology: we couldn't have said such a thing only a century ago.
I'm still happily employed in an industry which didn't exist 30 years ago. I've lived through two major recessions and a couple of minor ones but escaped largely unscathed. Since I reached the age of majority, the Berlin Wall and Soviet communism have vanished, the cold war ended but we've since been in two Middle East wars and a number of smaller clashes around the planet. The world has changed multiple times over, sometimes for the worse. 30 years ago, I wondered if my generation could survive the growing nuclear stockpiles, but I'm now vastly more worried about damage done to the world by corporate malfeasance.
30 years ago, we were awestruck by images from Voyager 1 & 2 but the launch of Galileo probe was delayed by the Challenger disaster. Now we eagerly await images from New Horizons of Pluto, have multiple satellites orbiting Mars and three on its surface, sent probes into comets and have counted hundred of extra-solar planets. 46 years ago, the year I was born, man wouldn't walk on the moon for another 2.5 years.
It's been a good run thus far but at 46 I'm looking more often towards preparation for my retirement at (hopefully) age 60. Well, that and wondering how I'm going to get done all the things I have on my calendar for the next few months.
I'm now 46, which is turning out to be a pretty good age to be. Many kids I grew up with didn't reach voting age so I consider myself lucky. I've had a few health stumbles over the past few decades but they've been relatively minor and easily treated with current medical technology: we couldn't have said such a thing only a century ago.
I'm still happily employed in an industry which didn't exist 30 years ago. I've lived through two major recessions and a couple of minor ones but escaped largely unscathed. Since I reached the age of majority, the Berlin Wall and Soviet communism have vanished, the cold war ended but we've since been in two Middle East wars and a number of smaller clashes around the planet. The world has changed multiple times over, sometimes for the worse. 30 years ago, I wondered if my generation could survive the growing nuclear stockpiles, but I'm now vastly more worried about damage done to the world by corporate malfeasance.
30 years ago, we were awestruck by images from Voyager 1 & 2 but the launch of Galileo probe was delayed by the Challenger disaster. Now we eagerly await images from New Horizons of Pluto, have multiple satellites orbiting Mars and three on its surface, sent probes into comets and have counted hundred of extra-solar planets. 46 years ago, the year I was born, man wouldn't walk on the moon for another 2.5 years.
It's been a good run thus far but at 46 I'm looking more often towards preparation for my retirement at (hopefully) age 60. Well, that and wondering how I'm going to get done all the things I have on my calendar for the next few months.
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Date: 2013-02-02 02:29 am (UTC)If I can go back to singing or acting, I don't plan to retire.
I have no one to help me through this adventure called life. Wish I did, but that's my reality.
HUGS!