56. Birthday
DmitryToday, 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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suradeep (Check me out!) Janam Din ki badhai!
= Happy birthday in Hindi ;-)
Cheers and please keep doing good work.
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Dmitry (Check me out!) 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,
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Lubo? Motl (Check me out!) 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.
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Lubo? Motl (Check me out!) 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/Demographics_of_Russia
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Dmitry (Check me out!) Dear Blake and Lubos
Thank you so much!
Thorsten, I am so glad to see you among the readers of this blog :)
Cheers
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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?
Dmitry (Check me out!) 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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Happy birthday!
I must admit that this post is quite depressing to read.
Instanton.