22 years on RFF

[Keith]

This is my 20th year. 🙂

 

[Archiver]

I think this way also.

Twenty years ago, I was 47, still had my parents, and felt like I still had my life ahead of me.

Now, at 67, both parents gone, I'm thinking in 20-more years (if I make it) I will be 87 and am looking at the other side of life. Crazy! Make's one want to maximize all the time they have left and enjoy life.

😢❤️

I hopefully have a few more decades left in me (both parents made it into their late-90's - Italian immigrants) and strategize how to enjoy each day now as time now feels more compressed.

Luckily, I am still working, enjoy my career in hi-tech, and hope to continue working into my early-70's then slow down a bit after that - maybe taking a remote gig here-and-there for play money.

It's funny, but I'm already thinking where am I going to be in 20, 30, maybe 40 years and wanting to make the most of every day. Being on the other side of 50 is a bit of a wake up call. Seeing family members pass away in my 30s started me thinking about my own mortality, and with every person that passes, the more apparent it becomes.

I shoot a lot of young athletes, and I often say that my highest hope for my work with them is that they can look back on it in 20, 30 years from now, show it to their families and say, 'I did that, I was there'.

It would be superb if we're still on RFF twenty years from now, arguing over the M22 and the M-VR6 which shoots holographic captures, and putting our latest street shots in W/NW threads. Maybe I'll even still be using my M9, who knows!

 

[Bingley]

I can’t believe that l been a member on this great forum for 22 years.

Congrats! Time flies, doesn’t it? My 20 year anniversary on this site is coming up in early October.