So This is How Not to Spend Time

     Quite a few of us at a "certain age" begin to talk quite a bit about "finally having time" to pursue our dreams. I'm beginning to think this concept of midlife living is overrated.
     If we haven't pursued our dreams in the last 50+ years, is it reasonable to assume we will do so in the next 20+ (heavens...30+!)?
     I think not.
     What I do think we pursue in midlife are not our 'dreams', but rather our natural inclinations and peculiar interests -- no matter how odd they are.
     Perhaps after five decades of life we feel emboldened not to have to have a 'dream'.
     I came to that conclusion having spent 5 hours in the Apple Store https://www.apple.com/retail/fashionvalley/ in San Diego. How (and why) I found myself in San Diego is of no interest, what is of interest is that I calculated the average age of customers around me in the Apple Store to be about 55, with me being among the youngest. And there were A LOT of these mid-lifers, crowding around the Workshop  tables, giggling with the blue-T-shirted Apple 'masters', hooked up to earphones staring at screens.
     What were they doing? Pursuing their interests.
     The 70-year-old man on the bar stool next to mine was learning to edit his videos of trout fishing.  The other 70-year-old man on the other side of me worked on his music files - a prodigious pile which he had carted in on a dolly. The 80-year-old woman doctor I took my Apple-One-To-One class with was updating her filing skills for what looked like a substantial collection of emails on bird watching. She, by the way, strongly counseled me to get an ICloud email address because "...when you say 'my email is ICloud-dot-com' to people they look at you up and down with respect!'"
     Perhaps 'dreams' are what you have when you are young and think you have to prove something to the world.
     Your natural inclinations and interests - on the other hand - are meant to impress no one but you.
     And that's why, perhaps, those are the things we choose to follow in the end.