The roads I take...

On my latest status report, at the beginning of one of those busy weeks, I shortly linked the song Rollin' With The Flow (this times linked to really correct lyrics), which turned to one of my favorites recently - because it resonates so well with where I am.

Its lyrics start off like this:
"Once was a thought inside my head,
Before I'd reach thirty I'd be dead.
Somehow on and on I go
I keep on rollin' with the flow."

As I'm just turning 30 today, this is a thought I quite naturally come across - it's the age where you realize that people about 10 years younger than you are already grown up, and it's a scary thought sometimes that one might finally be escaping youth. On the other hand, I'm not really acting that much grown up myself yet - while the song tells that story with still lovin' Rock N' Roll and still being "out here havin' fun", for me it's still livin' in a student dorm and spending an awful lot of time sittin' around at home in front of the computer, almost livin' a stereotype geek life.

And so the chorus almost comes straight out of my heart:

"While guys my age are raisin' kids
I'm raisin' hell just like I did.
I've got a lot of crazy friends,
And they forgive me of my sins.
You can't take it with you when you're gone
But I want enough to get there on.
And I ain't ever growin' old
If I keep on rollin' with the flow."

I'd probably be raisin' kids by now if I'd have across that girl (or probably woman at this age) that would be able to lead a long-term relationship with a guy like me. This may still happen, I'm not too old yet.

Thanks to all those crazy friends though, who are still around and with whom I've spent lots of fun hours - and I hope there will be quite a few more.

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a nurse who sees lots of cancer patients and realized when I'd be given a diagnosis that I wouldn't be around for much more time (I hope I won't ever actually have that experience), I'd probably spend even more time working, because I can't take much with me in the end but the content of having done something positive for this world - which I really see in the work I'm doing in the open source world, esp. Mozilla and SeaMonkey.

For those of you who don't know the song, you can listen to it in a made-up YouTube video with nice pics of the singer's home state.

And meanwhile, I'll go celebrating for a bit, remembering that I ain't ever growin' old if I keep on rollin' with the flow...