On the Edge of the Eighties - 1979

This was the first entry in the notebook.. On the Edge of the Eighties. Reflections: Past, Present and Future. I started this in early November 1979. Quick writing in a notebook. We had moved to Buffalo from Philadelphia in June of 1979. 

11/1/79

The Eighties. They're nearly here. It seems almost impossible. The new decade and where am I now. Am I really ready for this new experience? What will the eighties bring to me, my life? And what were the Seventies? This is a good time to reflect on them. I've become of age, so to speak, in the seventies. Came to manhood and developed into what I am. A mixing of adolescent and teenage Sixties with the young adulthood Seventies. The Eighties will be the culmination of the previous two decades emerging from the childhood of the Fifties. The three decades were so very much different. What will my fourth decade be like? Age 28 through 38.

This decade approaches the half way mark of an expected lifetime. The Eighties are my mid years. I guess it would be fairer to say the Mid-Eighties through the Mid-Nineties but centuries ago in other times 28 to 38 were the peak years and 40 was an old person. But it this time it is half and maybe less. Anyway, now is a good time to think about myself. Who am I? What am I? How did I get this way? What am I becoming?

11/2/09

So I wrote that 30 years ago. It will be interesting to read through these comments and try to understand them as I put them into this blog.