Looking Back Over Life

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I saw an interview with Donald Douglas (Douglas Aircraft Company) when he was in his later years. In the interview he said he must be getting old because he found himself reminiscing about the past more and more. I now find myself thinking of the past. I don’t know if I’m doing more than I ever did or if there is more to think about. More things have happened. More years have passed. One of the things I think about occurred about seventeen years ago. I was working at a company that offered me a job doing research online. I very much wanted to take the job but it was a contract job and I would have lost all my benefits–my vacation time, sick leave, personal days off, medical benefits–and at the time I didn’t feel it was worth it. I often wonder, if I would have taken the job, how much that would have changed my future job opportunities. I have worked for a few local newsmagazines writing articles but those jobs seem to fizzle out for one reason or another. Many people would not like to go back in time but I would like to go back to my teenage years. I know for some their teenage years were hard. I didn’t like school but most summer days on the farm was filled with fun. Of course I had to work during haying season but that just gave me more spending money. And I got paid for helping milk the cows. For the most part the summer days were carefree days. Days of swimming in the river and playing in the sun. Once a person is out on his own things are not so carefree. Get a job so you can make money to pay for a place to live and food to eat. Punch that time clock and watch your days dissolve. The next thing you know you are looking back over your life reminiscing about the past. Here’s a song written by Neil Sedaka and Philip Cody sung by Karen Carpenter: