Life seems to be more interesting looking back when you are a lame duck man.Luxury to have the time to look back and ponder. Was it worthwhile or is life a zero sum game ? When you die if your children don’t hate you that’s an accomplishment. You get experience another way of saying you are getting older which is fine. I would rather be where I am than a day younger. I see the struggles that young people go through. Simmering anger, inability to face and accept themselves. Ideas too definite to hear otherwise .Too much time spent in futility blaming and paying for therapy. A different generation but can’t generalize.

Is life meant to discharge the duties you took upon yourself without realizing or should the life be spent exploring, inventing learning. When can the lame duck man be allowed to break free to explore with no obligations and no chains of “love”.Is life meant to be spent withering away with lack of zest, unappreciated, unrecognized always deficient. Humans live long which screams for adventure reinventing oneself rather than settle for one of unchanging boredom. You look at the poor people, sick people,average people and feel superior.Go through motions of living like zombies. Is lame duck man a zombie whose purpose is to provide console and also suffer ingratitude. Is there statute of limitations to parenthood, husbandhood and adulthood. Ask the Rohingya, the Syrian refugees, the migrant Indian laborers, they would grab your life in a second.

Dalai Lama wants us to be happy. Is he happy? Was he happy even before he was exiled. The rigor of becoming a monk for the chosen child must have been suffocating. Now finally he might be happy with no responsibilities, bills paid people in awe of his words of wisdom. Does he know what it means to be a husband, father, breadwinner? His life seems to be more exciting than his teachings. Let’s go jet setting and forget it all🤔