I win.

I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I saw the glaciers of Greenland from 30,000 feet in the light of a full moon while chasing the sun over the horizon. I saw the sun appear huge on the hazy horizon while blazing across the semi-desert of Montana at almost 100 mph. Who gets to say things like that? I DO!

The future is a singularity. It sounds so negative but it isn't really. It’s always been true for the history of the human race. It is true because the future does not exist. It has never existed. What lies beyond the event horizon of is only a perception or impression of the future. It is pure speculation. No matter what time frame you look at, the ancient Greeks, The Romans, The Jews, The Chinese, the dark ages, or the golden age of redneck car lovin’ America. It’s all the same.

I grew up with constant negative speculation of what this singularity will be. An example is the mis-interpreted and overrated book of Revelations. I think it’s a code warning the early church and the Jews that Rome was out to get them; the Roman Emperor Nero being the beast.  My parents, however, believed it applied to them and America. Therefore it also applied to us, their children. Well, the Bible as a whole is re-written and mis-interpreted ad nauseum -- to the point where some of it's meaning was lost do to endless re-writes by scribes over thousands of years and political manipulation.

Someday, this planet is going to still be here. Vines will grow up the rusting skeletons of skyscrapers. Animals will come back and inhabit urban wastelands. The humans will be gone. The rusting skyscrapers will collapse under their own weight. The Pyramids will outlast the 800 meter tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai by thousands of years. Ours is an age of foolish vanity. It will pass. Maybe a few lucky people will survive if they happen to be in the right time and place.  I don't think this is a negative impression.  It is actually hopeful.  The earth will return to it's former natural glory.  Maybe some humans will be here, maybe we won't.

Who knows. Maybe in 100 years it will be a golden age like Star Trek.

The point is that nobody really knows.

I have always lived my life as much as I could. I have lived it as if I came to the end of my days and proclaimed “I wish I had done this.. and this… and this… “ I did some of those things. I travelled. I experienced cool stuff. I learned things. I read books. I debated. I drove a car on a race track really fast. I took pictures. I went out sailing on a nice sailboat. I learned Karate. I went whitewater rafting. I lived downtown, in the city, and in the suburbs. I lived in the country. I learned how to fix stuff. I had relationships. I met interesting people. I made friends. I rejected people. I had jobs that I liked a lot, and bosses with whom I worked well. I told a boss that I didn’t like to stuff it and I quit. I got fired from a stupid job that I hated anyway. I told a boss I didn’t like to stuff it, and I got to keep my job. I drove across the country in a car and saw the Pacific Ocean. I saw the Atlantic Ocean. I was married. I will get married again if I can. I spend time with my family when I can. I went to college full time and got a degree. I did things because I wanted to.

Sometimes people reach middle age and regret not living life enough.  I don't have a lot of those kinds of regrets.  I would do it all over again.  I will continue to live my life and experience what I can because I am supposed to.  We humans are not here so we can live to die.