This has been an eventful summer to say the least. After 18 years in education, I lost my job, my best friends wife had an operation to remove a brain tumor just weeks after her oldest daughter got married (the second wedding in two months since her middle daughter was married earlier in the summer) and I began to have serious thoughts about being older and mortal. Did I mention that my youngest son also turned two while I will be 47 in a few months? So my perspective is one that I never saw coming three years ago. Have I changed my views on anything important? Maybe. Have I gained a new outlook on life? Possibly. Do I still think about the fact that my dad was dead by the time he was my age? Absolutely!
I am not any different from most people. I believe that most of us are not on the extreme side of most issues. We see things from multiple perspectives and struggle with important issues because of that. I am writing this blog simply to give myself and outlet. I don’t claim that I have any answers or that my observations will matter to anyone else. If you enjoy what I write, that is great. If you don’t, that is OK too.
August 23, 2009 at 3:16 am |
I think a lot about my own mortality too and much of it revolves around the fact that you stated – Daddy’s death. When I turned 35 it really hit me that he was so young when he got sick. I think about getting older everyday and don’t like it one bit. Maybe, just maybe it will make me appreciate each day more though. At least that’s what I’m working on.
Glad to see you are writing again. I’ve always considered you the first writer, and me the second.