Age and alarms
Sep. 20th, 2007 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyIf you want to depress yourself, go here and find out what other people had achieved by the time they were your age. For example:
At age 33:
English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.
Jesus of Nazareth, a moral teacher and faith healer, was executed and eventually became the most renowned religious figure in history.
Vaudeville performer Walter Nilsson rode across the United States on an 8 1/2 foot unicycle.
Successful merchant Cyrus West Field retired at age 33 to devote himself to laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
I almost had a disastrous start to the morning. I often wake up a short time before the alarm goes off; so it was this morning, when I lay in bed thinking that the alarm would go off soon. I always find that if I look at the clock in this situation it will always show that there is only one minute to go. Not this time, though. After a while, I wondered just how much longer I would have to wait so I put on my glasses and looked at the clock... and it was blinking 0:00. Aargh! There was a storm last night, which obviously took out the electricity at some point. Then I thought to find my watch and all was well, because it showed that it was now exactly one minute before I normally get up anyway. Phew.
At age 33:
English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.
Jesus of Nazareth, a moral teacher and faith healer, was executed and eventually became the most renowned religious figure in history.
Vaudeville performer Walter Nilsson rode across the United States on an 8 1/2 foot unicycle.
Successful merchant Cyrus West Field retired at age 33 to devote himself to laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable.
I almost had a disastrous start to the morning. I often wake up a short time before the alarm goes off; so it was this morning, when I lay in bed thinking that the alarm would go off soon. I always find that if I look at the clock in this situation it will always show that there is only one minute to go. Not this time, though. After a while, I wondered just how much longer I would have to wait so I put on my glasses and looked at the clock... and it was blinking 0:00. Aargh! There was a storm last night, which obviously took out the electricity at some point. Then I thought to find my watch and all was well, because it showed that it was now exactly one minute before I normally get up anyway. Phew.