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May 10, 2018
Daily Inspiration — Beginning my 70th Year
By Josh Mitteldorf
At the dawn of my 7th year, I relished all things new and lustrous. Each day, I understood something about the world that I hadn't understood just the day before. As one piece after another falls away from what I once thought was the bedrock of reality, I find the most daunting challenge is to assemble from the new pieces some coherent whole, something with just a fraction of the satisfying integrity of the mythical picture of
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At the dawn of my 7th year, I relished all things new and lustrous. Each day, I understood something about the world that I hadn't understood just the day before.
In my 70th year, I celebrate unlearning the things I thought I knew. Each day, I hope to question some assumption that I have accepted for so long that I cannot imagine how my world might fit together without it.
As one piece after another falls away from what I once thought was the bedrock of reality, I find the most daunting challenge is to assemble from the new pieces some coherent whole, something with just a fraction of the satisfying integrity of the mythical picture of the world that has guided me since childhood.
Like the old peasant of Shamcher's story, I will be given to know what I need to know, no more. If I want to know more, then, I must throw myself into some mission that requires deep knowledge. I ask for the guidance to tell me what that mission might be.
-- Josh Mitteldorf
Authors Bio:
Josh Mitteldorf, de-platformed senior editor at OpEdNews, blogs on aging at http://JoshMitteldorf.ScienceBlog.com. Read how to stay young at http://AgingAdvice.org.
Educated to be an astrophysicist, he has branched out from there to mathematical modeling in a variety of areas, including evolutionary ecology and economics. He has taught mathematics, statistics, and physics at several universities. He is an avid amateur pianist, and father of two adopted Chinese girls, now grown. He travels to Beijing each year to work with a lab studying the biology of aging. His book on the subject is "Cracking the Aging Code", http://tinyurl.com/y7yovp87.