2022-12-27
As another year draws to a close one cannot help but reminisce about our life journey so far.
I look back over a happy childhood, teenage confusion, transition to a productive employment, kids, later years and finally, "independence" in retirement ... except that retirement turned out to hold just a few unexpected twists and turns that now look as though they were merely a prelude to a world turning inside out, a process that still unfolds day by day with increasing speed - and yes, I'm loving it!
It's true that I wasn't happy about the way things were unfolding, but knowledge brings confidence and I was never in much doubt that the Covid had to be a scam - then the jabs roll-out confirmed it in spades. So yes, I was well equipped to understand what was going on and my dabblings in politics in support of Brexit had given me enough basic political and web hosting experience to enable me to set up this site. Sheer luck or divine guidance? Who is to say? But it's certainly worked out and it's comforting to believe that our lives here could be planned out to a much greater extent than we might have believed possible, particularly as the opposing powers could hardly be better entrenched.
So retirement has brought opportunity to influence more people than ever before, hopefully in a positive way - well, nobody needs to follow my ramblings unless they find them useful. And yet - I find that I'm not just sharing my accumulated wisdom (such as it may be) - I'm really sharing my own continuing journey of discovery with others who are, I suspect, also on their own journey, in perhaps less supportive environments.
Along the way I have learned that fakery is endemic, all facts are suspect, and everything that cannot be touched seen heard smelled/tasted with our own senses can never be known for certain. So, we must work out whom to trust as best we can from experience, logic and intuition, ruthlessly applied without fear or favour. Nothing is unchallengeable, and it's OK to say "I don't know (yet)".
Another in not dissimilar position is Martin Geddes, also ex IT but paying the price of being too young to have retired before the uncomfortable dawning of the separation of the sheep from the goats, or winnowing of the wheat from the chaff, choose your metaphor.
This is his excellent summary of his current state of play.
And this might have been entitled "Chuckle with Geddes"!
So what we may well ask may 2023 bring?
OK - I must be consistent and admit that I don't know - but I do hope that 2023 will likely be very different from 2022, that the Followers of the Light will increasingly have a hand in it, and I'm looking forward to it - in calm trepidation!
