Something hit me tonight, i was in the subway listening to my grunge music on the overpriced klipsch headphones of my cutting edge android phone, wearing my brand new nikes-slightly aged levis with black pure wool jacket and scarf all rugged up against the cold - looking very much the urban middle aged male.
I was thinking to myself - i love this age in my life, I'm young enough to enjoy it, make enough money for any toys i want, old enough to be totally comfortable with myself - basically feeling very swish as i walked through to cold night in New York on my way to a "Web 2.0 Startup" meeting.
I love being Peter fucking Pan. Basically that ageless man-boy who gets to do anything he wants, whenever, and however.
It's one of the reasons i decided a long time ago not to have children. Basically there are lots of people on the earth already/with the singularity fast approaching we dont need more people - but realistically i like getting up on Sundays at 10am, making scrambled eggs for breakfast and just hanging out with no need to run anyone to soccer practise or ballet.
Then it hit me as i was in the subway, there were 6 other guys in the subway that, with slight variation, all looked exactly the same, all over educate-over paid-(over sexed?), middle aged, slightly trendy, man-boys with no real struggle in our lives, none of us have to get up at dawn to draw water from the well, or crush grain to make bread, or worry will my crops fail in the spring.
The biggest issue most of us have in our lives at the moment is do i buy the 120hz or 240hz LCD big screen tv's.
I'm not sure what it means, should i have had kids, should i do more with my life, is building yet another website a big waste of time and i should do more volunteer work in a local shelter or should i throw it all in, volunteeer for the Geekcorps and go to Africa for the ultimate sacrifice?
Cheers,
Dean
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