Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 11, 2024

Decisions keep getting harder until you make a really bad one. Then your choices are so limited that they’re not much of an issue… so I’m told…

24 is what makes you a better 44.

When to my VA Dr today, he was whining about turning 60, I think my 60’s were my best years

GBS said youth is wasted on the young. I counter that experience is wasted on the elderly.

I’m 86 and I’m living my best life. My Dr. says there is no reason people can’t live to 110.

I do like this arc, even though it is a repeat.

Proverb: Good judgment comes from having experience. Experience comes from having bad judgment.

As you get older birthdays mark the chronological order of decay.

Where’s Petey?

One of the bad doors is Smoking. Don’t go through it or you will never see door 74

71 here. Just bought a sailboat — one last adventure. If I get ten years out of it, I’ll be very pleased. Working on names now, Drownton Abbey, Sloop Dogg, etc. Feel free to suggest.

yes and no-well that covers the options

Just do not open the door labeled “Trump”.

This arc seems hauntedly familiar.

How do you tell which are good and bad? By going through them. If it was bad, then you shouldn’t have gone through that one. :-) Downside: you don’t get any do-overs.

The Midnight Library

This is what the witch came up with besides a candy house…

Hey! What a great story arc. Thanks.

Why skip 34?

When you’re newly born, your possibilities are limitless. During the entire rest of your life, every decision you make, every path you take (or don’t), every twist and turn of fate that life hands you, keeps narrowing them down until there are none left.

It never really gets easier.

Life’s a B, and then you die.

My first thought was work cubicles. So sorry if that is what you have to look forward to.

Getting older isn’t for whimps, especially in a goofy post pandemic world world where media; electronic and otherwise seem to think everything has happened in the last 5 minutes. Just my 2 cents!

Aging in 5 year increments is much easier.

Know this: Once you choose a door and enter, the whole configuration changes again and again and again…!

So very true. Adult life is about making one decision after another. Some good and some bad.

Despite that huge maze, you only get to open one door. And then everything changes. And unlike Kate, you don’t get any free peeks.

Coming up on 80 in December.

I’ve noticed some things about the decision ‘doors’ in life. Mostly, they open toward you. You step through, and it slams behind you. Once the latch catches, you discover that there’s no handle for the latch on your side. Further, the hinges all are mounted on the other side. Worst of all, even if you have something with you to use for a pry bar or a ram, you find that the door has welded itself to the frame, and the frame is a molded part of the wall.

That’s why there’s no going back – unless you are very fortunate. So far, I’ve had several of those – probably more than my fair share. but I’m liking my life, and plan to continue to enjoy it come what may.

Those doors all look the same. Decisions don’t.

Life is an office cubicle maze??