All I long for, all I have longed for for years is to retire (prior to wanting to retire, my ambition was to play). Given a chance not to work, I would take it. However, this is not because of laziness or some inherent trait of sloth. Rather it is because I want to pursue my own interests and ideas; I want to do my own thing. One of the saddest things I find in talking with people about not working (aside from obvious disapproval) is that they like working, they would get bored not working, after all, there is only so much TV one can watch. Hmmm ... a pretty sad comment I think. I have a mind full of ideas. There are lots of things which grab my interest, which distract me as I journey through life. Finding what I want to do is hard., because every week I can have a new thing I want to pursue. Some might argue that I am not disciplined. Definitely, I am a poor finisher - great starter, but lousy finisher. I believe I have found what my ideal job would be: owning and running an incubato
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MOI: I don't know. I could launch into a discussion of epigenetics (but not today, except briefly).
Epigenetics is the study of changes to your genetic expression (DNA). Normally, we are led to believe that our DNA is our destiny. However, researchers have shown that DNA does not have to influence us. You can read here about how researchers at Duke University got mice who were genetically predisposed to be fat and yellow, to give birth to slim, brown mice (who have the same genetic predisposition, but it seems to be turned off) by simply feeding them more vitamins.
Perhaps the heart attack (or his quitting smoking) has changed his behaviour in a similar way.
breal: lots of people seem to have some sort of obsessive-compulsive behaviour. I find it wierd.
anonymous: that is a pretty good idea.