People First

What's Important in life?

Always put the people you love first.

This is what is important. Careers are useful but without the people you love life can be quite empty indeed. Without those you love around you (family and friends) life is pretty meaningless for most people no matter how much money you have.

I'm now in my late 60s. I remember the 1950s and even being 2 years old in 1950 and having whooping cough. I remember this far back and further.

But, what I find strange is how many lifetimes we all have to live to get to our late 60s.

I mean, I can look back and see so many different roles I played as a person, some meaningful to me and some not.

I can remember being a shy child but big for my age so people at least my own age didn't usually pick on me.

But, I also remember a boy a few grades older than my friend and I were at age 6 and that boy banged us two 6 year olds heads together to be mean and made us both cry.

The next day we wouldn't go back that way walking home because we had to walk several miles home at age 6 from school. But, we had to cross a 4 lane highway to do this and we almost got hit by cars going fast and they slammed on their brakes. And a teacher stopped and talked to us why we were running across a 4 lane highway.

We told her about the boy who had banged our heads together and he got in trouble and parents started driving us to school. But, my grandmother who walked out who was worried about us turned her ankle and broke it trying to get to us and this just made things worse in our household because she couldn't walk for 6 weeks.

That was 1954, a long time ago but the person I was at age 10 in 1958 in some ways is the same person I am now except now I wear a lot more armor than I did then and am much more experienced in every way imaginable.

But, I still remember the 1950s now as if they were yesterday. I think there are some years of our lives that we just try to block out entirely. But often that is not true of zero to 20 or 30. AT least it isn't for me.