it really is 2026.

[lloyd3]

I had something of a realization the other day, we are now well past the point where anything I ever read or thought about (concerning the future) has come to pass.  Since I'm clearly a 20th century man (born in '58) I guess it alright to find myself here but...I'm strangely affected by it all tonight.  Mine is a slow intelligence, so I have to sit with things for a while before I understand their significance. Perhaps it's because I'm getting older but things seem to really be chaotic these days, at least to me. It almost seems deliberate, I swear, so I'm done paying so-much attention to it.

Part of it is the prevalence of the internet and the constant (24/7)stream of news, between my cell phone, my laptop and the TV, it's almost bewildering. I've taken to reading in the evenings just before bed to wind things down a bit.  Wintertime makes it harder to get away outside (a calming influence) although it's been very mild here so-far, almost like no winter here to this point.

Our old cars are a nice connection to simpler times, as is hunting and even fishing, but during the darker months I'm mostly inside now. I wrecked my ankle 2-years ago on the ice here and I'm not much interested in wrecking anything else. I walk our dog everyday to get outside but...that's not quite enough to fill my days. Our son is in his last semester at school and will soon be headed back east for a job in Pennsylvania, so we really will be "empty-nesters".

I either need another hobby, a girlfriend, or another job to keep myself occupied it seems.

[Kern Dog]

I've asked a few people my age and older if they have had this experience that I have felt the past couple of years:
I think of a song, a vacation, a home repair I've done, a car I owned.....And in my conscious mind, it seems like any/all of them were just a year or so ago and it surprises me to be reminded that it was 5 years, maybe even 10 years ago.
Yeah, this is common.
Friends of mine in their 70s seem to do this even more than I do. See, I think of a song that I like and it boggles my mind to think the song was 40 years old. Heck...I don't feel 60 years old but that is the truth.
I look at my cars out back and know that they are classics but my '70 Chargers are 56 model years old? Really?
I've heard some say that as we age, it seems like time moves even faster. That sure seems to be true.

[doctor4766]

Who would have thought that we, our much younger selves would have made it this far into the future?
It's only a few years ago we graduated and took on jobs to begin preparing for children and all that that would bring into our lives.
We bought our first cars and built our homes and raised our families.
Now we ache when we pick up the grandkids, but it's ok. we knew it was coming

[Kern Dog]

Well, I have no grandkids and I don't usually ache but I understand the sentiment.
It is interesting to think that as kids, the year 2000 sounded SO futuristic but here we are 26 years past it and STILL no flying cars.
I didn't give much thought of what year I'd live to. I hear dates mentioned for deadlines of laws, mandates and other stuff and it always seems foreign....just odd to me. 2030 ? It sounds WAY out there but it is just 4 years from now.