I’ll tell you what’s weird about turning 55: the implicit time horizon behind your decisions changes, subtly but profoundly. “Am I really going to get 25 years of value out of this thing I’m considering buying? Am I really ever going to read this book, if I’ve been carrying it from one house to another ever since college 35 years ago, and have never yet cracked the cover?” It’s clarifying, and sobering.
@adamgreenfield I'll be 58 soon & I'm full-time engaged in activities that I'll likely never see the fruition of (battling climate change)—planting seeds for trees under which I'll never sit. At the same time, I'm very conscious of spending time every day doing things I love. Of not waiting for ANYTHING. If it's possible to do, I do it now.
It's not just my keen awareness of my age, but losing 4 parents in 2 years (plus gestures to everything)...there are no guarantees. Do the things now.
@j_g_fitzgerald@susankayequinn You know, I’ve thought about this a lot, and I have absolutely no desire to do that. I look forward to leaving at the right time.
@adamgreenfield I'm 55 too this year. I stopped working in 2019 aged 51 and since then have totally restructured my life around 5-6 nature recovery projects in my area that I volunteer with.
I view it as the start of my second thirty year career. And just like at the beginning of my first thirty year career, I'm the youngest person in the room.
@chrisshaw It’s not necessarily that Mac OS is so good these days, but that Windows still feels so aggressively corporate and institutional-greige. You sit down in front of a Windows machine and it immediately feels like the IT Department has configured it for you or someone of your pay band.
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