A good thing then 18 1 12 (14)... and perhaps even more so now..? 25 1 30

Well one truly good thing about growing old is that as you put time between having an experience and reflecting upon it one's perception of what it was all about ceases to change on a day to day basis.

I'm sure there are other truly good things too but this particular one is the one that catches my imagination today and at the same time I have to be cognisant of the fact that if I wish to continue to be read I need to try to write eye-catching blog titles, hahaha

Like when you first retire you go about your daily life in much the same way as when you were gainfully employed but the structure of an orderly life has over-night been swept aside and little by little you have to deal with these changed circumstances..?

Now I have filled a lot of blogs up with what these adjustments are about when one retires and in my own case how during my working my working life I had become something of a world expert in my specialist field only to begin my retirement when in no time at all I would become yesterday's man just another has been..? Today putting one's natural modesty aside to call myself a world expert is not a problem when recently a far more famous person tweeted that he had always been smart but then corrected himself to call himself a genius, the guy in question responding to someone's memoir about his fitness for high office in terms his mental health, etc., etc., etc..? My main audience for this blog, the people of the USA will know about whom I now speak, but maybe also the people of France and Poland who also have been reading my blog recently: such is the celebrity of the person about whom one speaks!!

And how one progressed along this path to become a world expert one worked first in one industry and then a second, third, and fourth related industries, staying with fibres and their physics and chemistry throughout, until in the end I knew of no-one with comparable knowledge and experience: but a most unusual specimen for all that because one could only shine in a very limited company and environment..? Rather like a snake which has adapted to living in say in the Gobi Desert or some such place but which if transferred to a location where predators were to abound, would no doubt be eaten in the first few hours..?

I got to reflect on this over this Christmas period when during the weeks before my wife first visited Estonia on a weekend to see a Musical, then in the following week visited our younger son and his family who live near London so she could take our two grand-daughters to see a show in London’s West End as a Christmas treat only to arrive home in good time for the pre-Christmas rush to do the shopping, etc., when during the festivities with our elder son and his family, she went down with a virus which has been with her ever since, and which reminded me of a period in my own life when during 3 summer vacations I came down sick, each summer earlier than in the last until I changed my life style to take account of the fact I was no longer a younger man of boundless strength and energy, my wife of course being a good few years younger is perhaps only now going through the same learning process..?

So all in all, I’m beginning to feel I don’t need this New Year to make a good many resolutions as perhaps at last I have arrived, and I’m getting the measure of what it is to be old when I begin to think about much of the stuff in the same way today as I did yesterday. Have a good day everyone, whether you’re still en route to where I am or whether you too have arrived safely already?  

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