Thursday
Apr212011
WHERE THE FUTURE COMES TO AUDITION
Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:21AM Esquire magazine’s article on Mayor Bloomberg indicated that a previous mayor said of his city, “New York is where the future comes to audition.” (Esquire, Feb 2011, (90).
2 January 1986, New York (NY) Times, “Text of the Address Delivered by Mayor Koch at His Third Inaugural,” pg. B5: says “New York is the place where the future comes to rehearse.”
These quotes got me to thinking, “Where does the future come to audition or rehearse when we retire?” “How do we find a place to audition the new self that we are becoming? When we get a glimpse of what that new self might be, where do we go to rehearse the role that we are becoming?”
When we were young, those of us who were fortunate enough to go to university went there to audition and rehearse the new self that we were becoming. But, where do we go to do that when we are late in life and changing our way of interacting with the world?
I don't know the answer but am working on it. Any ideas?
tagged change, future, retirement
change, future, retirement
Reader Comments (1)
I'm not late enough in life to have reached retirement, but I still love the transition-time question. In the middle of life, without a job and looking for one, I resonate: where do I go to rehearse what might be possible? And where is the future auditioning for me? Funny that I'm only just reading a spring blog entry in the fall, but maybe spring/fall are perfect times to be asking these questions. You could say the changing seasons have those future rehearsals playing out right in front of our eyes!
Yeah, I'm working on the answer, too . ;)