Re:The Caging of America
by berntb on Sunday March 11, 2012 @09:58PM
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It is totally opposite, a year is much more precious to me now.
Count the number of good years you have left, with the health+energy to do what you want. I heard this week that the knees are failing on a relative of a friend, which is my age.
When you were young, the years stretched in front of you, endlessly.
These days I think things like "Japan is so fascinating that I would love to live there a while, but I just can't use a work year to learn the language and the writing system. I need that time for other things."
Count the number of good years you have left, with the health+energy to do what you want. I heard this week that the knees are failing on a relative of a friend, which is my age.
When you were young, the years stretched in front of you, endlessly.
These days I think things like "Japan is so fascinating that I would love to live there a while, but I just can't use a work year to learn the language and the writing system. I need that time for other things."