Bad Boomer's Place

Time and energy, two things of which there is never enough. I would like to learn this, do that, and explore the other. The story of my life, I guess. I am a computer professional, and always have been technology-obsessed. My bookcase at home is chock-full of computer books of one kind or another. Windows, Linux, SQL, PHP, ASP, and so-on. The curious thing about these is that they all seem to have a bookmark about a third of the way through. That is how it goes. I start a new book, determined to learn something new, and by the time I get about a third of the way through, life has placed enough obstacles in my way that I never get to pick the book up again. This does not happen suddenly, but time and energy become slowly unavailable until I just never pick the book up again. For some books, this has happened several times. The same goes for learning new things online. When you are young, work and learning are things you do in order to have or achieve something. So, there is a definite end-point envisioned. Soon however, the means becomes the end, and work is just what life seems to be about. This is sad, but such a strong tendency, that many people who retire end up dead or back at work somewhere. So, just where in our lives do we go from someone who works in order to live, to someone who lives in order to work? BB