Watching Jay Kelly over the weekend, the new George Clooney movie that is available with a Netflix subscription, affected me in a pretty profound way that I didn’t anticipate. You see, I’m about a couple of months away from a milestone birthday that, at least when I was younger, I saw as the birthday when a person turns “old.” I don’t feel old, and despite a health complication or two, I don’t feel all that different from the way I did 10 years ago.
Mentally, though, my own mortality has become much more present than it ever has been. I think more about things I’ve done in life, or things I didn’t do, and how things would be different today had different paths been chosen. That’s not to say I’m looking back with regret; it’s not that at all. It’s the “what ifs” that get me thinking, just like the character Jay Kelly (Clooney).
