How would you judge your life?

If I judge my life by how my daughter turned out, then A+

@Rarebear In your opinion.

lol

Yep, very positive. I have raised an awesome daughter, have volunteered for humans and animals, have rescued and loved countless pets over the years, I have helped the elderly in assisted living and private companion care. Led a community youth group, been a wildlife rehabber.

I have an infectious and humorous personality style and can’t count how many times people have told me I have made their day with my humor and verbosity. I’m satisfied I have been and continue to be worthy of my oxygen supply. I just wish all my great qualities made me more money. lol

I don’t want to be judged by others, and frankly, I’m not ready to judge myself. I’m still a work in progress.

Age 70 and counting – so far, so good.

Risking hubris, I have to say I generally have made a positive impact on the people I have met on the road of this life. This is what they tell me anyway.

Through high school, war, divorce (my ex wife still thinks I am a great guy), higher education etc. I have been lucky enough to get appreciation, recognition, and not much negative feedback. In fact, the only negative feedback I get is that I am cocky. And I guess that is true, but people usually say it with a smile on their face anyway.

So by your standard, I figure I am doing something right.

I think I’ll leave that in the hands of others.

Distinctly more positives than negatives overall so that in itself is a very good thing.

I consider myself too young and too much in doubt to judge my life at this point. What the point of judging anyway? Let’s just keep that at a minimum.

If it was my time and I was asked to give myself a report card I would give myself a distinction. Not a high distinction because I know there are times I have been thoughtless, or petty, or judgemental or just cranky and short tempered with people. I know at times I’ve not been as attentive as I should have been and I’ve let friendships that I valued lapse.

For the other 80% of the time, I’ve been a caring, decent human being. So… yeah, I think I’m worthy of a Distinction.

Judge my life? I am not objective enough.

To boil years of rich and plentiful experience down to a sentence or two? Nah I would hate to do that..

A mixed bag, getting better as I get older.

I don’t know.

There are days I feel confident that I do everything within my power to be decent and kind and try to be unselfish.

Then, there are times I berate myself and red-pen-edit the things I should have done or said because I feel I’m failing at my own life.

I’m not sure if that’s insanity or a balanced view. Maybe there isn’t much difference.

At the end of my time (who knows when that will be?) I suppose I’ll say “I tried and when I failed, I tried to correct it.”