A thought occurred to me yesterday after hearing the news that Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 when he died. I got to thinking what would I do with my life if I knew I was going to die at 56? I'm 40 now so that is only 16 years. Not a huge amount of time if you think about it in the scale of a normal persons life.
The scary thing is I really don't know what I would do with my life other than be with my wife. There is nothing I really want to do, nothing I really want to see and nowhere I really want to explore. I would be perfectly happy with just being at home with my wife all of that time. I suspect that would annoy the hell out of my wife with me being under her feet all the time.
In one way that says to me that I have what I want, being with my wife but on the other hand that says I never want anything more for my life so what different things are there to look forward to. Kind of strange when you think about it too much but that is kind of what I've been doing. It is also weird that this person passing away is what made me think about it, possibly because he isn't that far away from me age wise (really) and works in a physical and logical area very similar to what I do. It also doesn't help that he was incredibly successful at it where as I basically make a decent living at it.
Still, something to think about. What would I do with my time if I knew I only had that much left?
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