05/07/2026
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED.....?
Have you ever wondered about where your life’s headed and about what makes it worthwhile? Then perhaps you can relate to the following.
After a lifetime spent in the mountains climbing, skiing, and taking photographs, now at age 70, I’ve been wrestling with questions I never used to ask myself. Questions about purpose. About aging. About whether I still have the energy to keep doing the things that once defined me.
And honestly, part of me wondered, if I wrote about this in a Facebook post, would anyone even care. But I took a chance and hit the Post button.
What surprised me wasn’t the number of responses. It was the honesty in them. Friends I haven’t heard from in years opened up in ways I didn’t expect. And people I’ve never met did so as well.
Here’s just one comment. A woman wrote:
“Hey Bill
I can relate to so much that you just said. There are moments when I also question what it is I’m doing and whether I want to continue to make art for other people. I also need meaning and a reason to be alive. I have also been fighting some health issues and hopefully I’m slowly getting them solved so I can relate to that as well. Good for you for finding meaning in the mountains. I miss Truckee so much because of the mountains and the lakes and the beauty and the people.
I hope this message finds you well.
Several days later I’m still touched by her words and those of the others who commented. Not because they were dramatic. But because they came from the heart.
I think many of us reach a certain age and quietly carry these thoughts around without saying them out loud. We wonder what happens when the identity we built over decades starts shifting beneath our feet. We wonder what still matters. We wonder if other people feel this too.
Apparently they do.
I was moved by the connection that was made.
This was a real moment for me.
