I have known I was going to start this blog for over a year. Thanks to Neocities I guess I'm finally getting it started. The fact that Neocities is nostalgia as a platform only makes it all the more appropriate for me to use it. Why? The Internet I loved has passed on and over. I'm not jaded enough to decry the modern web - the corporate web. It's just not the web for me.
The CenturionI plan on living to see the age of 100. Barring an accident or external event, I have no plans on killing myself until I join the three digit club and become a centurion. A 100+ year old human. That's pretty rare, but perhaps technology will help us make it more common.
With that in mind, turning fifty is the point at which I have a precious gasp of balance between the time I've lived and the time I hope to live. After that, the hope to live is always the smaller number. In the passing of a second there's less wick in the candle than all the wick I've burned. I don't feel any exetential horror or second midlife crisis moment brewing; I am finding myself looking back more on the roads I've walked to get where I am. Some good, some bad. Same as anyone. From where I stand, the imperfect mess leaves me with hope. If I've screwed everything up this bad in 50 years, imagine what I can do with another 50 to improve upon it!
Hope is a lot better than despair. Not just easier, but a lot more worth living for.
Which gets me back to writing this blog. It's where I hope to share that hope. Espeically as the minutes tick by and slowly but surely bring me closer to that precious gasp.
I'll try not to bore
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