My View On Life Essay Research Paper

My View On Life Essay, Research Paper

MY VIEW ON LIFE AS WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT August 11th. 1998

I am now 62 years old and I have plodded through the years, at first, enduring the terror of World War

Two as a child, surviving the “Blitz”of London, escaping death by minutes. Then, in peacetime, [if you

can call it that, but in my world it was] through the schooling years, at which I reached the pinnacle of

personal achievement. The last year of my Secondary Modern School, I was top of my class. It was not

that I was so smart, it was that the rest of the class was so dumb. But it sounded good, my parents were

delighted and when they entered my name for an apprenticeship at a local aircraft plant in Luton I was

accepted. [assured with the bribe of a puppy dog to the apprentice program supervisor from my parents]

This apprenticeship program was to be the very foundation for the rest of my life. I worked at the aircraft

plant four days a week for a very small salary,even for those days,[ my first weeks pay was $3.00, yes three dollars, 6 years later it was $32.00 ] then for one day a week I went to a local collage, from 8am till 8pm.So six years later, after failing one year, amidst threats of all but death, I barely graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. During these six years, in my limited spare time I enrolled in the Royal Air Force.s Air Training Cadet program. Here I learned the principals of flight and the joys of flying. During my last year of work in the apprenticeship program I was attracted to the chief test pilot.s secretary, who worked in the office next to the hanger that I worked in. Amazingly she was attracted to me and even more amazing her parents were also. It was here in my life that things changed radically for my future. During the war years and later I was always impressed with the American and Canadian servicemen in England, they had a way about them that was contrary to our strict Victorian upbringing. They were more relaxed, more fun loving and seemingly, more confident of themselves. As a teenager I always longed for that level of being confident.

Now the parents of this young lady that I was seeing, had visions that their daughter and I would do well

in the Colonies, Canada, Australia or even the United States. Her father had spent 15 years in Canada and

was impressed with the many opportunities he saw. This instantly appealed to us and at the conclusion of my apprenticeship program off we went together to Canada. I shall always love her father for pushing me to do this, it changed everything that was to happen to my life. We lived in Canada for nine months and what a rude awakening that was, I had suffered the rigors of prejudice, many Canadians hated the English and were not bashful about showing it. I quickly realized that my future in Canada was limited, also,

suffering the hash winter working outside as a contractor.s helper was not my idea of a profession. So

leaving my then fianc.e in Canada, I emigrated to the good old US of A. Later, after finding work she

joined me and we were married, but not for long. She suffered terribly from homesickness and I, from the lack of understanding and we parted company. The US Army drafted me and for two years I served as an army aviator in helicopters during the Cuban Missile Crisis and t he early Vietnam years, this was another experience I shall always cherish. After returning to civilian life, the Boeing Helicopter Company, near

Philadelphia was looking for experienced helicopter engineers and so began a 27 year career that was, in

my opinion, one of my greatest successes, second only to marriage to my beautiful wife, Linda. Who,

incidentally, I met at Boeing. Boeing gave me many opportunities and I took them all. The company was

good and fair to me. Throughout my career I learned much and I gave much. Give nothing and you will

get nothing, that goes for work and for personal relationships. Yes, it appears that some people are

working hard at great discomfort for the comfort of others. The very nature of work is working for

someone to help them maintain a level of luxury that far exceeds the luxury that you could ever expect

from the rewards of that labor. You spend 8hours a day at work, 8hours sleeping and 8hours getting

ready for work and getting ready for bed, somewhere in between we are supposed to have a meaningful

life. During my career, [ we call it a career only after we have successfully survived and completed one] a

great deal of living and learning was done, some failures, some successes and some achievements, far too

much to list here, for we are getting to the part that is, I feel, the reason for this writing.

The mysteries of life have been one of everyone.s subject of deep thought at one time or another. I have

read much on the subject, some works by very famous men and women and yet I must be blessed, for I

believe I have an answer, you.ll note I said An answer, not The answer. It.s an answer that satisfies me.

We are born and we see people die, we see the same thing in just about every thing else, animals, plants, birds, trees etc. we all are so fearful of death, what.s going to ha

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