I hope, I hope

I suppose that yesterday’s early post made it appear as if I were happy, happy, happy about my aging. Not necessarily so. More realistic than happy. Those who know me wouldn’t say that I’m the most upbeat person they know; in fact, I’m quite critical about lots of things. But, those are things that can be, might be and should be changed by complaint and education. Aging is not one of them.

And I sometimes get wistful when I realize that I cannot run a race; that I must walk it instead. Yes, when your body fails you, you can’t help but take it personally! But…your mind can thrive by exercising it, by full engagement with the world. And since I can’t travel everywhere I would like, I use the internet to make that connection.

If you were old enough to remember the first few years of television, you can see some similarities between the internet and early television. And this internet, the one we all use right now, is heading towards gross commercialism. Will it become the ‘television’ of the mid 21^st century?

But, the good news is that we’re not stuck with just one internet. Another one could appear. Any time. Here’s hoping!