Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass........ The promise of life.....Yesterday I had my 62nd birthday. I spent most of it working like I usually do, not because I have to, but because I want to. My family went out of their way to pay homage to my day and all in all it was very pleasant. There were all the usual questions including, well, do you feel any older today? Since aging is a progressive event one doesn't usually 'just feel older' at a given time but at some point one usually does notice that lifes requirements are less. One sobering fact of aging is that when you pass the milestone I just did, you must recognise that what's behind you is much more than what's in front of you. I was getting a little melancholy over the arithmetic in my life and wondered to a friend 'what's next'? My friend's reply was two words and very profound and truthful,... 'a lifetime'. A lifetime must be looked upon as a promise. It was so at birth and will be so until death. In my world, the promise is simple. Pick something you want to do, then pour all your passion into it and you will be greater for it, win or lose. That has been my rule for living since I realized I could think, and that thinking was powerful. My life has been such an adventure that to dwell on it in these pages would probably do nothing but foster disbelief in those who might read it. Once life has moved beyond relevance to others it then is owned in heart, body and soul to the one who lived it, and may be lived again and again by the one who lived it through memory. In my case, my wife shared with me, and we experienced together some of the most exciting times possible for a mortal and consequently we still share those times together occasionally. In addition to that of course are those memories and achievements that belong to only I, and sometimes something causes me to remember one of those things forgotton that are pleasant to recall . But as my friend so wisely buttonholed it, a lifetime is what we all have left. I don't waste much of mine, and dreams still visit me occasionally, and as crazy cockamamie thoughts and possibilities invade my thought parameters I never dismiss them as undoable, crazy perhaps, but never undoable........ I still have promise................ !!!!!!