45 next birthday and starting to fall apart.
That is the way of things and try as you might with exercise, diet, chemicals or whatever you can't cheat old Father Time.
Of course, descending into dotage is a double edge sword - what we lose in the physical we gain (at least in part and for a while if we're lucky) in the mental.
If I had the ability to catapult myself back into the head of the 22 year old who travelled in his Peugeot 306 one Tuesday afternoon in August 1995 to Nottingham i'm sure I couldn't stand it. Of course I would swap his body (although it was 5 stone heavier than this one) and I would definitely take some of the fire back that was there and the wish to change the world, but the shallowness I couldn't handle.
With age and experience brings depth (and cynicism) but it's the depth that I now seek and look for in other people.
Of all the people I admire, and unfortunately the majority of those lie outside of dentistry (not exclusively but mostly) it's the depth of the character that I gravitate towards.
Depth comes from experience and pain and hurt and survival and resilience. I'd love to give away the cynicism that I think is essential for depth but I guess it goes with the territory.
Incidentally it's likely that depth is a saleable commodity, particularly in face-to-face business interactions.
Blog Post Number: 1084
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