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By Jack, 2007-08-20 11:19:54
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In celebration of a 40th birthday, things come to you in a whole new and sometimes new light? As I approach 40 years of existance, my perspective and outlook on life has changed. And may I add, by complete surprise. My hobbies, desires, fantasies and drive for what I used to believe, now altered?
You asked why write upon a subject as simple as life? Well, either you haven't turned 40, or are not anywhere close to closing the 40 years, or you are one of a select few who doesn't feel this factoring force!
Where do you go from here?
From the time you got your first kiss, job or car, life seemed pretty simple. I have gas money, lets go to the mall, down to the river or the beach? As time went on survival was about the day, and how we lived it... Looking forward to the weekends. Then a girl, a woman, a wedding, who would have thought that would be a reality? Oh, and then children.
Not realizing that the expendetures had progressively went through the roof, because with every year of additional expenditures, came additional income. The level of comfort remained unchanged. Now, after 911, job changes, lay-offs and the unrulling way of unfairness playing against the living and fun of life. We all have some underlying thought of if I would have done things different, or tried out for this or applied for that, not only the job, but applied myself to setting up my future?...?...?
Would these feelings be weighing on me today as heavy as they do?
- Job Change?
- Security?
- Retirement?
So, without the life for dummies book, I find myself asking what the he_ _ am I doing here? And how did this happen to me?
No, your not ignorant or stupid, but what did we let slide by while enjoying our fruits of immediate gradification and reward justification, instead of planting the fields for tomorrow and the unforeseen?