Welcome back on track, Kristijan!
You’re right, it really doesn’t feel like 10 years. Also, it doesn’t feel like close to 7 years since we last met.
I really hope we will see more of you here again. Every now and then I think about you and wonder what you have been up to.
I wish you all the best - and of course looking forward to updates 
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Not going to lie, this information stung a litle bit:smile: feels like l still got some of Lisas gravy on my lip 
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It’s kinda crazy it has been that long ago!
That does kinda sting.
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When you are 15 and waiting a year to get a drivers license then time is a snail crawling up a long board. When you are 78, a day is a 45 degree plunge down a 50 foot hill on a waxed toboggan. Relativity.
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Time. Yes, a slippery thing. It should be a solid value one minute to the next. One year to the next. But as is said . . . it is not.
With the foreign exchange students the last two years I get to observe especially at the sports games a lot of 14 up to 18 year olds.
Watched sports playing, interacting, socializing by a lot by us oldsters in our late 60’s to even early 90’s.
With the young they want to hurry up time to be able to Live things possible at, yes 16. Then 18. Here in the U.S., then 21. Then decades thinking any mistakes can be recovered from with the seeming “inexhaustible” years ahead.
Us oldsters have well learned the need for patience to let time-things come along and mature.
But always the recognition that that time spent waiting is now valuable, diminishing and will for us come to and ending much sooner versus the youthful later, someday.
The best time measure in those years 21 to the mid-late 60’s is raising children. As, they grow and change before your eyes. No denying then the march onward of time.
Steve Unruh
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I haven’t even turned 60, but what starts to feel a bit depressing is the feeling of “no point”. All the pojects you have planned - no point - won’t be able to enjoy the result for very long and previous projects increasingly need maintence.
Locking back on earlier ashivments - building extension for the kids - those rooms have been sitting empty for the past 10-15 years. The “new” 25 yo glassed porch - not used a lot nowdays but starting to require maintence.The 23 yo “new” boiler setup - still enjoying the result very much, but the clock is ticking. The “new” 20 yo garage/shop - starting to need maintence.
Just a few examples, and if enjoying future projects turn out to be as shortlived, and basic maths tells you they certainly will, what’s the point?
On top of that you learn about that vaxed sled syndrome…
Well, I guess it’s about tough priorities from now on - what’s the most fun.
Maybe I’m just spoiled.
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JO, you are so right. At our age (really, any age for that matter) it is best to lay up treasures in heaven. One advantage, of many, is that they don’t require maintenance.
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I am just living one day at a time now at 73 Years old. Yes time has been fly by ever since I have decovered DOW. One wood or charcoal gas project after another with maintenance on going all in between them. The goal is now for me, is not to create any more threads topics I have enough on this site. I just need to add to the ones I already have created. Lol.
The best part is getting to meet some of you, and to get to know all of you here on this site. Thank you.
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Well said, especially for a youngster 
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the secret of contentment in life is to have the legs on the ground and the heart in “heaven”…
but having the heart in heaven is not so easy when there is not the feel for the need to find the truth…
religions are a lot, also materialism and atheism is a kind of religion, when someone believe in it…
but the heaven in the heart can be only found by truth, if that what one believes is really true…
greatest ostacle is not if someone is not able to found the truth, because if someone is a serious seeker god helps to find…
greatest problem is if someone not likes to have a god over him, what is just a serious disease of soul…what such a person can find??
the truth and so a truth religion must be explainable in all his parts, because god, besides the greatest love is also the greatest wisdom, and needs and likes no blind and dark faith…
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