The memories page is a wonderful facility and I have thanked Paul several times for creating it. Having said that - are memories just an exercise in both rampant nostalgia and remembered pain, or something much more? I think there is much more to memories: they are a tool that enable 'stock taking' and they provide information to enable each and everyone of us to move on. I have experienced joy, but much of it was chaotic and badly planned - if planned at all. It is time to achieve some coherence together with positive action. What about you?
So how am I going to achieve this all action coherence? Well I am old enough and wise enough to know what I want to do, given my present circumstances and likely budget. I do not need old time religion. I do however need a fair amount of luck. The rest is down to me. One thing I have not got is the foresight to know how much time I have remaining - annoying that one. So many of my past friends are no longer on the planet; David my best man at my wedding; Brian the lovely lad, together with his pint of beer, last seen hitching a ride through the galaxy on a 42 bus; Dennis my old left winger and neighbour, long gone. Those lads are a warning - to get on with it. So how many years to build into the plans? I will make a bold guess : how about eleven?
If I have something like eleven years it is time to list the aspirations and cut my cloth - with inbuilt flexibility of course. Mind you I need to build in four years of decreptitude so that leave me with a vigorous seven years.
Seven years? Not long is it? Well as you know it is not how long you live - it is what you do with it. I'm off for a pint.
WB
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