So when you saw the title of the video, what did you think were
you were like, what is team's going to share with us about what he
knows? Well, this is not gonna do. As I get older,
I am learning the more I think I know. I don't know about that
for a second. I know a lot of stuff obviously from what we experiences
I've had, whether it's schooling or life or as I say, formal education
and life education the street. I got to fifty four US fifty five.
Somehow I am here. Oh, I made mistakes, done things I shouldn't
have did, had some fun along the way, and made it here.
And I look at that a little bit as I'm my birthdays is in a
few months, and I'm looking at I start getting reflectively around this time period
and I'm looking at my birthday. I'm looking at when I just my life
in general as an adult, say from eighteen on, because I was on
my own eighteen, that's when those subs she left when I was on eighteen,
which I always knew I was going to. I mean, my mother
tell you, I was like, I'm gonna leave eighteen. I'm gonna go
and sport the world. But from eighteen to now fifty four, we had
some life and experience and I look back and I go, wow, I've
accomplished this, this, this, this, this done this that I've had
many lives and my friends and family know that. You guys know that.
And it's just times I might go, how did I do it? Like
I did it? I know I did it, but I really did bounce
back or I mean, there were times I've lost stuff and fires, floods,
relationships, whatever, and I'm like, I was thinking, I was
thinking about the other day. I was thinking back in nineteen ninety nine,
I was trying to find a place to live. I was trying to leave
situation that wasn't good. Living situation I was like, wasn't good. And
it was like one percent vacancy in San Francisco. It's dot com boom.
Everything was booming. People were like doing gift baskets and muffins just for credit
checks, you know, things like that. And I remember I decided to
walk up and down the street and see what was available. And I had
at the time, I had a pre decent job. I was working pretty
good, so I could I could get something decent. Was getting expensive back
then, you know, thirty years ago. I was read twenty five years
ago. I remember I was down the street and I just am by the
grace of God and everything else in the world. I come up on an
apartment where the person who's looking for people part manager went to high school with
my then current boss, and also he was Puerto Rican. We just we
banded together with the New York stuff. My boss, my boss at the
time, gave a great and I was working for him, so he gave
a great reference. And that's how I got the place to live. And
the place I was living in was very unique, and I just remember thinking
now the background and going wow, I looked at this unique place and a
great part of town. I lived my life. I was golden coming out
of a situation that wasn't golden. I made it. That's why I just
made it. I've had jobs that I just was oh, they were so
serious and dire and oh my god, and then somehow those jobs are in
my past. Half the jobs I've worked in San Franisco are now out of
business. Then I even a business anymore, and like they were, so
it's just so serious. I mean, my whole world, which just like
I'm just I'm just learning that I I know what I know what, I
know what I know right, And now we have this thing called social media.
So as an older person, I'm watching all these younger people and me
telling what they think life is and the meanings of life and whatever. A
lot of them, I just feel it's just it's all for clicks and hits
and platitudes. And I've noticed a lot of these younger influencers or talkers,
what racial speaks, whatever, they follow other people like they're so like they
quote other people all the time. It's like, well, what do you
use think? I was, like, what do you think? But you're
quoting people. I quote my own life experiences. I don't quote other people
except for family members. Maybe I'll say that Mike, grandma should say.
But otherwise they will quote other folks. That's interesting thought right there. But
there are a few that to me, are very unique and they're very real
and they share themselves and their experience and I follow a few of those and
I love those those guys and the other things I push aside and you know,
okay, whatever, they try to get clicks and hits, and that's
the whole thing. But there's some folks who are like me, where we're
just transparent. We just tell our experience. There's something about shared experience what
I'm worring about in their fifties. Two. I'm in a situation right now
that I wouldn't have understood about if I hadn't gone through what I went through
last year. That makes any sense. I'm in a new situation where I'm
able to understand that person situation because I went through it. So shared experience
one thing. I will say, shared experience make a big difference on mindset.
And I'm like, okay, now, now, a couple of years
ago, I would have understood in theory what you're saying actually would have been
different. Now I'm like, I totally get it. I totally get But
that is because I went through it myself, and I know the ins and
outs of it, and it's tough. I think I'll just end it there.
That's what fifty pluses this week. I'm fifty plus. I'm James la
Junior, jailj Media. Talk to you next time.