Moving at the Speed of Life
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off It does, Ferris. It surely does. I've stopped and looked around a few times. It's a nice thing. Once, at the Grand Canyon, I had the fortuitous circumstance of being in the dark without the moon in the sky. I laid on a block wall near the rim of the canyon, and once my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I could see the Milky Way in all its glory, in the sky above me. For a moment, I contemplated my place in the Universe. It's a tiny place. So, here I am, an old man of 58. Marketing ignores me. Women ignore me. I am left to my own devices. I have idea whether I have 2 years left, 20 years, or 50. It's part of the mystery of life. It seems not all that long ago that I was a young man, full of dreams and habits of young men. It was long ago, but the "seems like" has been replaced by the r...