What Comes Next

I had lunch with a friend the other day and we talked about how things seem to change for us as we get older.  We have more clarity, we told each other.

      We are one year away from turning 60 and we are still trying to figure out life.  It’s an interesting journey if you stop and reflect for a bit.  As children we are simply absorbing everything that comes our way; in our teen years we think about ourselves and what we want; when we get what we want we cope with it, be it relationship, career, debt; in our 40’s we start to reflect but we are still trying to achieve satisfaction in our lives.  In our 50’s I think we are finally starting to get it that life is not about material things and it is not even about relationships.  It is about evolving as human beings, and if we are even wiser, it’s about leaving a footprint, a legacy, or something.

      Ah, or something.  In a nutshell, we are still hoping to have lived a life that in the end meant something to someone.

      But as we try to figure things out I at least have come to realize that it is important to live my life to the fullest every day.  It may not always be easy to act upon it but I do know that being a couch potato is not an option for me.