What you might have been

Chapter 243

You can still become what you might have been.

One of the greatest dangers in life as you get older and older, is that you start thinking that you are too old to change. This is not true, but it feels like it is true, and even more so when you reach a certain age, a certain psychological tripping point or a particular stage in your career, but its not true. My learning curve has never been higher in any decade than it has been in my 50’s. I have learned far far more in this decade (and I still have two years remaining!) than I did in my 20’s and 30’s as I went through college and grad school.

I have a terminal degree, I have gone as far in the educational world as a person can go. I lead an International non-profit, I live abroad. I am still learning on that side of things. But in the last two weeks I have removed two engines from their chassis’s, and I have disassembled an entire truck. I have repaired a fence, I have learned how to count the teeth on a flywheel in order to discover what kind of clutch, throwout bearing and pressure plate is needed to be used with that particular transmission, etc, etc. I would quickly bore Bernie with the minutia about this stuff. But the bottom line is that I continue to learn. You can too.

In fact, you no longer can say “I wish I had become such and such” or “I wish I had learn this and that” because you can. You can re-aim your ambitions higher than ever before. You can still become what you might have been, regardless of your age.