This is a great opportunity for a man of 61 years old to get more acquainted with himself and connect with others in a way that will resonate with people of any age and hopefully any walk of life, ethnicity or gender. When I became a sexagenarian it was probably the most significant emotional and spiritual event that I can recall because it gave me a vantage point that I had never considered because I live my life to the fullest yet only day to day. One of my major shortcomings is not having had a plan. I used to make goals but I think my accomplishments have come through osmosis as it were rather than a concerted conscious effort on my part.
Also woven into my current working life and tenure, as a stepparent has been my life in recovery from alcohol and drugs for the past 23+ years. I have been fortunate in never having relapsed in that time. This experience I have been blogging about in what I call: My Life After AA for the past 3 years. These writings are my own experience and they have been reported to be a didactic source to my readers and quite frankly to me as well. This writing capability has extended itself into 13 blogs that I write on a regular basis. I of course am seeking to be discovered by some editor and maybe one day I will be. My writing is experiential in nature and I have been told that I am able to capture within my writing, emotion that normally would take pages. I just know that like my life, my writing is not scripted and it arrives nascent, or Faulkneresque as some have mused.
I am determined to avoid the world of stagnation and despair that my 83-year-old father lives in. My remaining years I hope will be characterized by the word that I have learned in my psychology studies and that is generativity. I have so much to offer succeeding generations merely by the life I have lived. Whether it be through my life passing through military college, a major weight loss of 75 pounds, a running career that included 17 marathons, life as an alcoholic and one in recovery for 23+ years.
As long as I can take in a breath I will always be in learning mode. Whether it is in my chosen vocation of Finance, my exercise regimen of spinning, or writing in my blogs I am always gaining knowledge about people, places and things. If I could describe my essence it would be a sponge. I am constantly taking new experiences and using my intuition to advance the lives of those in my nuclear and blended families and those that I interface with on a daily basis.
My future studies will certainly include the field of addiction, as I will pull from the 23 years of personal sobriety. I can also lend my experience to arena of blended families and share the experiences I have had as a stepfather. There is not enough study in this field of endeavor and I will do what I can to foster more understanding of the non-nuclear family.
Another area of interest for me lies in the burgeoning science of Cyber Psychology. Again having spent 17 years in the social networks of the World Wide Web and its ever-expanding intricacies is a fascinating area of psychology yet to be discovered.
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