Agony + Ecstasy

Someone asked me on Quora  What's the point of living past the age of 50?   After 50, unless you have a family and / or amassed some assets, what’s the whole point of living? How do people in their 50s feel about their lives, generally? I replied: Anyone aged 50 now stands a good chance of living for double that time. Why quit on life when it’s only half way through? There are amazing breakthroughs in nutrition and exercise and healing which mean that the ailments my grandparents suffered from, I will never suffer from. Ever. There are amazing new people to meet, new challenges every day, amazing things being said on Quora. Over 50 you really don’t care any more about what people think. If you are lucky you have family and friends who care for you and you can spend time with them. If you see someone you like the look of, you can step up to them and say hello. You don’t have to be a wage slave, if you want to start a business online you can. There are even bus

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing  has benefited many authors, but now many small scale authors are beginning to suffer from Amazon randomly cancelling their accounts. Amazon instead of deleting the accounts of click farm scammers, is removing the publishing accounts accounts of hundreds, maybe thousands of small self-published authors who, at one time or another, actually had a book or two bought by a scammer click-farm account. Some people I know who have had this unfair deletion of their accounts and books by the retailer have despaired and quit writing and publishing altogether.  Despair This causes me sincere frustration and I’ll share with you my reasons why.  Part the First:  Over the past 50 years at least professional publishers worldwide have packaged and sold books by millions of authors in different ways depending on where in the world the sale of the books were made. Book sales areas and pricing were tightly controlled.  Many books available in the USA were not (a

This is a big reason I no longer get drunk at parties, because drunk girls ARE an easy rape/sex target. These guys don’t have the social skills to persuade sober chicks to lay them, so they target drunk girls as a better opportunity.  From the news I've read and discussions I have been a part of there’s quite a lot of men hanging out at any party any part of the world these days checking to see when some chick falls asleep or collapses comatose from drugs or alcohol and they have this idea that drunk girls have no memory of what is happening to them. These men are lazy and socially inept. They also want power over women. "I grew up in a little town in Oxfordshire. I was part of a rebellious crowd. We did drugs and weren't very serious about school. I had lots of relationships, but I wouldn’t describe any of them as romantic. I was looking for one thing: sex. That’s what my life was about when I was that age, chasing girls. I became very preoccupied with pornog