"I have sworn, upon the Altar of God, eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Jefferson
Monday, July 23, 2007
By Age 33 . . .
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence when he was only 33 years old. That's how old I am right now. What did you accomplish by age 33?
Well, I'd won the Texas Press Association's column writing contest twice by the time I was 33, built a house, had two healthy kids. Thank goodness for this nation (and any others) nobody had asked me to write any constitutions. In retrospect things were pretty simple back then for me. I don't remember being driven by a need for accomplishments, but I didn't want to be where I was then for the rest of my life. I wasn't smart enough to know it back then but I had a serious lack of "people" skills. So I'd have to say I was propably pushing the envelope of where I should have been at 33 and needed a lot more molding and shaping before I was going to accomplish much more.
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Well, I'd won the Texas Press Association's column writing contest twice by the time I was 33, built a house, had two healthy kids. Thank goodness for this nation (and any others) nobody had asked me to write any constitutions. In retrospect things were pretty simple back then for me. I don't remember being driven by a need for accomplishments, but I didn't want to be where I was then for the rest of my life. I wasn't smart enough to know it back then but I had a serious lack of "people" skills. So I'd have to say I was propably pushing the envelope of where I should have been at 33 and needed a lot more molding and shaping before I was going to accomplish much more.
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