It is my birthday and I haven't blogged in a while. A school friend Mike K said that he had a blog and stopped because he thought it was just an ego jerk sort of thing, I have been considering this take on blogging. Sadly, I think he also deleted/threw away everything he wrote. Yes, I would be interested in reading his thoughts.
I often ask people what were the best five years of their lives and they invariably say high school or the five years after graduation. I wonder if this is why so many people only listen to the music that was popular when they were in high school?
So witness the picture above, found at my mother's, while discussing my current birthday. this is possibly the only known photo of myself and my two brothers where we all look somewhat normal, and somewhat happy as psuedo-adults. During this period of life I worked at Lockheed and had a secret security clearance, worked out and played basketball, I was on a very good softball team, even started wearing a diamond earring. In short I thought i was damn cool. I found the various women of Southern California to be surprisingly aggressive. I thought this period of my life I was maybe at "my peak". in fact if you would have asked me if I could turn the clock back to any point of my life I would have most likely picked this moment pictured,... HA!
Now looking at this picture, I think I look skinny and need a haircut. I realize my recollection of the past is circumspect. How odd to not even remember your own life with clarity. it seems maybe my life right now is the best I can be. Possibly wisdom does come with age. We can be forgetful as we get older but we have many, many more important things to remember as time goes on and we experience more of life. It seems clearly priorities now are much different than they were back then. Realizing this might be my best birthday present. The best might be living fully in the present.
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