I'll take 70 please...

Years that is.  I'm calling it.  Some of you may think it morbid.  Perhaps most of you may believe me to be depressed or that I require psychiatric hospitalization.  Well, be assured I'm the most stable and functional of people.  I'm the most sane of them all.  My fortune and my life has never been more fantastic than it is right now.  I've got a great career as a hospital pharmacist, a loving doctor lady wife, a dog and some chickens.  Oh, and did I mention a baby on the way?

70 seems like a lot of years to me.  I was on a run this morning thinking about what message to the world should be.  What is it that in this life I've discovered?  Truth is, I'm still in the discovery phase of my life, still searching.  So if you've come here for some sort of truth or vision, I can't say I have that.  Maybe Pope Francis has it or ancient scholars have it.

We spent an extraordinary amount of time in our lives, our culture and our world trying to cheat death but 10 out 10 dies I'll die.  It was at one time a man my age, 33, had a relatively high probably of dying in the next few years.  Now, with society being so safe, for many of us death is a luxury thought.  It's reflected on only during the passing of a loved one or in old age when there is nothing left to give to this world.

I spend an exceedingly large amount of my day helping society cheat death but inevitably it comes to us all.  Therein lies I think one of the most powerful realizations a person can have.  That because death for so many of us is now so far away, we are comfortable in letting the hours pass and the time slip away.  We're okay with dead end jobs, 30 year loans, and toil in anonymity.

I chose 70 because I think that's when I think I'll die.  Homo sapiens in their present anatomic form have been around for 200,000 years.  That 70 years is similar to the time span of one week in a 70 year lifetime.  Hence, my existence is just a week in the history of human beings and as of right now it's nearly half way over!  It's hump day.

I think I've done quite well for this week so far.  At least I hope I have.  I'd say we should go out with a bang...