RE: the older debian user; Debian Senior
--- Rick Commo <Rick.Commo@verizon.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug MacFarlane [mailto:madmac@covad.net]
> >>madmac - I'm staring 39 in the face, and finding
> that it's not so much
> that I
> >>get confused more often, but that I now lack the
> tenacious persistence in
> >>finding a solution. Is a readier willingness to
> say, aw fuck it, a trait
> >>of aging????
>
> Well, somehow I find that I'm a heckuva lot busier
> at 57 than I was at my
> mid-20s, even my mid-30s. The nature of the
> commitments have changed. Part
> of it is indeed "intensity", but our bodies become
> less "elastic" over time.
> Before, say, 35 I could do just about anything I
> wanted time-wise as long as
> I could make up the deficit on the week-end.
>
> Now... no way. If I pull the stunts that I did in
> my 20s through early 30s
> the next thing I know my throat is getting scratchy,
> my eyes red, and I know
> it's time to back off. This doesn't allow me to be
> as "intense" as I once
> was. All that said, I can say that I'm still as
> curious as I once was,
> albeit less idealistic, even around software.
>
> In a true sense time does "run" out in this sense:
> while a person may still
> have a lot of years left when he/she is only 30 what
> happens for most of us
> is that people we care about - kid and grand kids -
> are rapidly going
> through change. We can't just park em on a shelf
> and say, "I'll get back to
> them when I'm just done with...". They learn to
> live without us.
>
> Still I was amazed to see the number of people older
> than me who are hacking
> with this stuff. Good show!!!! Besides at older
> ages sometimes it's nice
> to feel "newbie" at *something*! ;-) Heck, my 85
> year old dad can't live
> without his computer now.
>
> Cheers all - young and old(er),
> -rick
>
>
At 56, this all sounds very familiar. Curiosity
doesn't seem to wane, and I can still put in a lot of
"conceptual" (rather than physical) hours in on a
project. Unfortunately, I don't retain info as well
as I used to.
I like to think I'm still as vigorous as I used to be,
just not for as many hours of the day.
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