what is it like to be 63 in 2025

June 27, 2025

I’ve lived through almost all of the times of humans going to space, and sending probes to space, since I was borm months after John Glenn orbited earth. It’s exciting learning what is recently discovered.

I lived through presidents 35 til 47. I’ve seen us in and out of the Vietnam War, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq… None of these wars were particular needed or useful.

I have witnessed things in my lifetime that most haven’t. I’ve been alive long enough that it seems like I’ve seen cycles come and to and come back again, and I think I know things that those who haven’t seen these things. Reading about it in books doesn’t necessarily have you understand them.

I am on the verge of what would have been retirement age, yet I fear I will have to work until I did because I don’t have enough savings to be able to actually retire.

I have seen enough change in the average climate that what is coming scares me, and I fear for what kind of world the young will grow into.

I have stories to tell, and some folks are interested in hearing them. I’m prioritizing saving at least some of them so that they might survive my death.

I think about death a bunch. I don’t really fear it, but I don’t want to leave a big mess for whomever has to deal with what remains behind. I used to be ok with dying soon, but recently I feel like i want to live for a while longer. Carlos Castaneda calls death an advisor, and I feel that.

I have friends who are young, and I like to talk to them both to pass on what I know and have experienced as well as learn from them.

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