26th April marks my birthday. It also marks the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. The same memory has been used to spread a Windows Virus by the same name, which some might argue it as a good day). I have had several bad incidents on my birthday before, I started wishing I could just skip it. It’s just in my mind I know, it’s a low probability that just happens. This year however it was different. Nothing serious happened. It was rather a normal weekend, with a bit extra childly noise. But once my wife asked me “How does it feel to turn 28?”, I just thought for a second, and all I can think of is “How old I am, and what have I done so far”. I’m not so young anymore. Time passes by, and we somehow easily manage to let it go.

I write this thinking of the great “The Alchemist” novel and the boy’s journey to pursue his Personal Legend, and how Paulo best describes it saying “It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work.  Now, I’m beginning what I could have started ten years ago.  But I’m happy at least that I didn’t wait twenty years.”

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