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! A survival kit for the over 50's and those intending to be !
! Because you can run but you can't hide !
Its Just an Attitude
"Acting your age" is such a dumb idea I've
stopped trying ...
On The Brighter Side
You'd think you could open a newspaper, listen to
radio, watch TV or websurf without being warned ...
Another
Chicken Or Egg Question
What comes first ? Career or family ? ...
The "Over 50 Face"
We are each entirely responsible for our own face
after the age of 50 ...
Joys Of Senior Sex
"... when we al groped around leveling the sexual
playing field ..."
" She'll Kill Me "
No married man still breathing has not said this
at one time or another ...
So Much More To
Achieve
But I'm not getting any satisfaction ...
Say Exactly What You
Mean
One of the great joys of aging comes when we
realize we can open-up, let loose ...
Jump-In On-Line
Feel like creating something really relevant
today ? ...
Is What We See What
We Get ?
To get the best results from our limited time
on earth should we set specific goals and pursue them with a
vengeance? Or is it wiser to create a broad master plan and
remain completely flexible to savour whatever comes our way?
After some serious navel-gazing I believe Plan B is the course
to follow. And the earlier embarked-on the better.
Because most of the objectives I deliberately set out to achieve
generally evaporate like ambitious New Year resolutions made
hurriedly each December 31st and equally-quickly abandoned on
January 2nd. No matter how practical and sensible they seemed at
the time to this day they remain largely unfulfilled.
While all the things I did satisfactorily accomplish -- and
immodestly I'd say there were quite a few -- came seemingly from
nowhere and were quite impossible to predict in advance.
Leading me to discover eventually that as long as I stuck to my
principles -- and, oh yes, even at over-60 it is possible to
still have them -- something good will always crop-up.
In fact when I don't follow my codes of conduct I generally land
on my nose. And regret for long afterwards how foolish I've
been.
Despite all this there is one goal I still hope to achieve.
Perhaps the most difficult of all.
To find-out exactly who I am and what I stand for. Because an
odd, yet true, fact is that nothing is ever the way it seems.
Not even ourselves.
Or perhaps, especially ourselves. Our moods change. Our very
physical appearance changes. From day to day, hour to hour, or,
for some of us, from minute to minute.
To different people we show very different faces. And, as my
sons are fond of reminding me, we love contradicting ourselves.
Which makes it especially difficult to know exactly what we mean
-- yes, even to ourselves -- when we say something.
The best example of this -- and I know I'm stretching things --
Adolf Hitler, the 20th Century's most evil celebrity, reputedly
said he couldn't believe anyone actually believed any of his
monstrous pre-Word War II promises.
Reason enough why, when people tell me they passionately believe
something (or "in" something) the more passionately they say it,
the more I don't believe them.
So can you trust me when I say I'm aiming to discover who I am.
This time, at least, I believe you can.