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Today, celebrating my birthday, I realized that it I may have well reached the middle of my life – considering that the average length of a russian man’s life today does not impress much (age VEV < 70, I believe). Probably, the latter has something to do with 1) our genes (that I cannot fix yet, but our control over genes will probably greatly improve in 30-40 year scale) and 2) with our way of life (but I effectively resolved this part of the issue during the last 6 months).

Apart from improving the way of life, what is actually done during all these years? What am I proud of? I have GREAT wife (I am really lucky in this respect, so much luckier that people around). To get married so sucessfully is definitely an achievement. I have spent some time to get some really good education (not in humanities though or languages – it would be so good to know a couple of European languages well). I work on things I, myself, want to work on. What else? I am not quite sure.

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12 Comments »

Comment by Instanton
2008-06-06 10:10:36

Happy birthday!
I must admit that this post is quite depressing to read.
Instanton.

 
Comment by Helen
2008-06-06 11:41:24

Happy birthday!

 
Comment by Sam
2008-06-06 13:51:45

Happy birthday!!

Sorry for being late.

Sam S.

 
Comment by suradeep
2008-06-06 16:05:31

Janam Din ki badhai!

= Happy birthday in Hindi ;-)

Cheers and please keep doing good work.

 
Comment by Dmitry
2008-06-06 16:35:29

Thanks a lot for all of you.

Instanton, I don’t know why you say so, it was just a quite unemotional attempt of self-analysis, of the bare fact that I am getting older ;-)

Cheers,

 
Comment by Blake Stacey
2008-06-06 17:03:44

Happy birthday!

 
Comment by Lubo? Motl
2008-06-07 08:20:22

Happy birthday! You were born exactly on the opposite side of the year than I was.

Greetings to your d?vu?ka ?e?u?ka.

 
Comment by Lubo? Motl
2008-06-07 08:22:02

And I don’t want to scare you too much but the male life expectancy in Russia, 2007, is 61.5 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D....._of_Russia

 
Comment by T. Battefeld
2008-06-07 19:57:52

Happy Birthday! And keep up the excellent physics posts :-)

 
Comment by Dmitry
2008-06-07 20:54:16

Dear Blake and Lubos

Thank you so much!

Thorsten, I am so glad to see you among the readers of this blog :)

Cheers

 
Comment by Mysterious Stranger
2008-06-08 03:08:50

A belated Happy Birthday from me, too.

In your list of achievments, you forgot to mention that you have a pretty cool blog, too.

Seriously, “I work on things I, myself, want to work on” is the definition of success, isn’t it? With a happy marriage on top of that, what more could you want?

 
Comment by Dmitry
2008-06-09 08:54:18

Dear MS

Thanks for kind words. The definition of success also includes the following part “and will work in the future as long as he or she wants” :)

Cheers,

 
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