Back issues of time

If I could save time in a bottle ... I'd need at least a Jeroboam, I think. The following was swiped from Writer Chick:

1. If you could pause your aging process, at what age would you choose do to it? (Meaning you would not live forever, but live for 90 or so years at whatever age you chose).

Having gone through protracted periods of foolishness, ignorance and general iron-rod-up-one's-assedness over the years, I think I'd like to freeze the clock at the week after I turned 50, a time when I felt that I'd turned over several new leaves and that I'd reached a point where I could shelve most of my ongoing fears.

2. At what age did you (or will you) consider yourself to be an adult?

I still wonder sometimes. But I'm thinking thirty-four, if only because that year contained the largest number of iterations of "Grow up, you jerk," and I did manage to survive it.

3. What do you think will be your most annoying trait when you’re a senior?

I have no intention of being annoying as a senior. Now get the hell off my lawn.

4. How does your current life compare with where you thought you’d be at this point when you were young?

It really doesn't at all, for the simple reason that roughly from ages 15 through 45 I figured I had maybe five years left, tops, and therefore projecting any sort of future seemed a futile, even delusional act. I can say that this isn't quite the life I might have chosen for myself, but it's not all that bad.

5. When would you like to retire? What do you see yourself doing with your life after retirement?

In the absence of a huge Powerball check, I can't see any circumstances under which I'd get to retire; had I the option, I think I'd basically carry on the way I do now, except for more World Tours. Few things re-energize body and mind quite as effectively as hitting the road. (And few things tire out body and mind quite so thoroughly after a couple of weeks, which proves that there is balance in nature.)

Pick this up if you'd like.

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