The Budget of Paradox

Thirty-six years ago today, I graduated from high school. Sometimes, I wonder where all those years have gone. Have you ever read Peter Pan? I mean the original, not the children’s book.

“Pan, who and what are you?”
“I’m youth, I’m joy,” Peter answered at a venture, “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

I like that line: “I’m youth; I’m joy.”

From left to right: my friend Mark (who's now a director at a cybersecurity company); my old friend Geoff (who's a psychiatrist now, but was an amateur terrorist in high school), me, my friend Mike (who's a CIO for a company in New York), and my friend John (I haven't seen him in a long time; I heard he's a nurse now).

Sometimes, I have vague memories of the young man I once was: My eyes full of hope, my world nothing but endless possibilities.

Sadly, you won’t have any idea what I’m talking about until many years from now.

Love you, dad