It’s always been a favorite game of mine to pick out a favorite number and use it to lead to a discussion of something completely useless.

This time it’s thirty-two.  Not thirty-one or thirty-three.  Those are far weaker numbers which are devoid of any major substance.  Thirty-two is strong and substantial and it sure feels that it is the type of number a guy can be proud to know; a number that leads a man to something worthwhile in his life.

Thirty-two.  Could have been 1982 or could be 2046.  The difference between those two years is sixty-four years.  And usually that is the same as two thirty-twos but in this case I just don’t know if that holds.

I don’t recall what happened in 2046 just yet but I do still have some recollection of the year that at one time was known as 1982.  It was the year just after 1981 and just before 1983.  It was not just then 1984 and we did not know that all of what Orwell predicted would not quite be realized in full just then.  Maybe later.

Were you around in 1982?  What do you remember?  Do you miss it and do you ever go to visit?

I do, but only on very special occasions.

Will you be there to greet 2046?  What will you expect?  Will you miss it once it arrives and will you then recall 2014?

I’m afraid I’ll likely miss it but not after it arrives.

There are still many things I would like to do and there is so much I would like to change and hopefully improve.  But unless I have at least thirty-two years at my future disposal I fear I will not accomplish it all.

But I will try.

And if I only have a day I will do all that a day allows me to do.  I must be busy and work smart and work hard.  I cannot count on having too much sleep or taking too many vacations or watching too much TV.  Every moment and every moment after are so important.  For all of us actually.

I do pray that I can survive long enough to get a good chunk done.  Too much have I waited too long to get myself and my actions dedicated to getting done.

Here is a start, here in 2014.  I wish I had been able and willing to start back in 1982 and if I am still around and able to do anything in 2046 well…

I will then consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth and the number thirty-two the luckiest number yet to come my way.

And there you have it all.