Like I stated in my profile, I love to read books and magazines. I collect many more books than I can read right now, cause for the last 5 years my attention span has been a bit short. I have been preoccupied with thought of life after death and heaven....you know, mild little topics to completely occupy whatever mind you have left. I still get new books cause i'm scared I will forget them later lol, sooooo. I buy. But I digress...this post is about brilliant minds, and as stated, something that I am not in possession of. But I know people who are. One happens to be my 'little' (youngest) brother, Tim. I just found out about his blog about a plane he is building in his shop at this time. Now, just so you know, Tim has built airplanes in the past, has flown most of his life and is currently in his second year of family practice residency at a local hospital here in Jonesboro. And he is brilliant. I am in awe of him, of what he can do and how at this point in his life there doesn't seem to be anything that this brother of mine cannot do!!! Truly, anything he has ever even thought about doing, he seems to master with ease. I am the oldest and am miffed cause the mind genes got better as they went down the line. My brother Stephen (4 years younger) is also brilliant, a CPA, financial planner, and like Tim, knows a lot about darn near everything. I am also in awe of him too. He was a pilot as well in places, but my favorite on him is being a bush pilot in Alaska. He then turned to commercial salmon fishing in their village of St. Marys, AK...from there decided to go back to college and get his accounting degree. Nuff said, right?
Me...I went to school once a long time ago and got an associates degree in respiratory therapy.(in the late 70's/early 80's this was all that was required!!) I loved this job for 17 years, quit and decided at the tender age of 40 that i needed to decided to do something totally different. I am now a nail tech at an awesome salon (the jagged edge in jonesboro) and have done this work for 10 plus years now. Love it!! Need a psychology degree too with this as we do lots of 'counseling' whilst manicuring lol.
my point to all of this is...use it or lose it...Tim and Stephen both have kept going on and doing different things and just continue to amaze me. Myself, well, I have now done 2 things in my life. I think the fact that my brothers had these different jobs, and life experiences, made me want to do at least one thing other than respiratory therapy, and makes me think that if I could decide what I want to be in this next half of my life, I would change again. But, what that is, i do not know. But, the older I get, I am trying to 'use it' more...i want to...if i could just figure out what *that* is :-)))
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