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Huh. I think at almost 70 I would still like to be doing, and creating... but then I expect to live to be 100 or so, and that's another 30 years or so AFTER that age -that's enough time to more than raise another child in, even, so that probably changes how I look at things. I think at 70 I would like to have found a passion in my life, and be pursuing it.
You know those people, and they have this drive, this energy, this vision? They have a thing they know they love doing, or that they believe SHOULD be done, like some teachers and some nurses and sometimes it's an artist or I've met a gardener like that -she is trying to figure out how to bonsai various nut trees, in a way that they can still produce one or two nuts each year, I don't know why but she is very intense about it, and every time she talks about it you can't help getting excited and interested, too. Then there's someone I know whose life goal is to make sure every child in the United States (that's where he lives) has a pair of shoes, and someone else I know who wants to come up with a cheap way to grow housing-shelters from planted/living bamboo...
Anyhow.
I do not have such a clear direction, such a passion. I think I would like to have found one, by the time I am 70.
I would also like to have a family that is all grown up, with families of their own. I do not mind so much if I still have a partner living at that point. I would not blame my partner if they died young, it would not be their fault, but I would want to still have living children, and grandchildren.
Beauty and the beast! Yes! Have you read Robin McKinley's stories? "Rose Daughter" and "Beauty"? Which one do you like most?
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