Spending my formative adult years, or what I like to think of as my first career in a highly structured hierarchical organization, I suspect that I may have picked up some bad habits. One of those habits might be associated with the assigning of labels to people that indicate senior and subordinate relationships.
This bucketing of people into castes is a habit that I'll have to overcome as I make a transition to my next careers. Listening to an interview of a highly successful entertainer today, I was struck when he suggested that he viewed himself as a peer to anyone he was talking to. This was his response when asked how old he felt. Since his real age was ninety three, I thought his answer hit the mark just about perfectly.
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| Ceremonial Barge Chesapeake - Berthed at the Pier of the USS Barry |
Striving to be a peer to your neighbors seems like the right balance to chase. It's also worth remembering that in the modern era a neighbor can be anyone close to you either physically or virtually. It's not about the brick and mortar of a house that defines a neighbor, but the distance and connectivity between us, which is progressively shrinking every day, that matters most.
I love being introduced to new ideas, and I'm looking forward what tomorrow brings forward to challenge my old habits.
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