So when you saw the title of the video, what did you think were you were like, what is team's going to share with us about what he knows? Well, this is not gonna do. As I get older, I am learning the more I think I know. I don't know about that for a second. I know a lot of stuff obviously from what we experiences I've had, whether it's schooling or life or as I say, formal education and life education the street. I got to fifty four US fifty five.
Somehow I am here. Oh, I made mistakes, done things I shouldn't have did, had some fun along the way, and made it here. And I look at that a little bit as I'm my birthdays is in a few months, and I'm looking at I start getting reflectively around this time period and I'm looking at my birthday. I'm looking at when I just my life in general as an adult, say from eighteen on, because I was on my own eighteen, that's when those subs she left when I was on eighteen,
which I always knew I was going to. I mean, my mother tell you, I was like, I'm gonna leave eighteen. I'm gonna go and sport the world. But from eighteen to now fifty four, we had some life and experience and I look back and I go, wow, I've accomplished this, this, this, this, this done this that I've had many lives and my friends and family know that. You guys know that. And it's just times I might go, how did I do it? Like
I did it? I know I did it, but I really did bounce back or I mean, there were times I've lost stuff and fires, floods, relationships, whatever, and I'm like, I was thinking, I was thinking about the other day. I was thinking back in nineteen ninety nine, I was trying to find a place to live. I was trying to leave situation that wasn't good. Living situation I was like, wasn't good. And it was like one percent vacancy in San Francisco. It's dot com boom.
Everything was booming. People were like doing gift baskets and muffins just for credit checks, you know, things like that. And I remember I decided to walk up and down the street and see what was available. And I had at the time, I had a pre decent job. I was working pretty good, so I could I could get something decent. Was getting expensive back then, you know, thirty years ago. I was read twenty five years ago. I remember I was down the street and I just am by the
grace of God and everything else in the world. I come up on an apartment where the person who's looking for people part manager went to high school with my then current boss, and also he was Puerto Rican. We just we banded together with the New York stuff. My boss, my boss at the time, gave a great and I was working for him, so he gave
a great reference. And that's how I got the place to live. And the place I was living in was very unique, and I just remember thinking now the background and going wow, I looked at this unique place and a great part of town. I lived my life. I was golden coming out of a situation that wasn't golden. I made it. That's why I just made it. I've had jobs that I just was oh, they were so serious and dire and oh my god, and then somehow those jobs are in
my past. Half the jobs I've worked in San Franisco are now out of business. Then I even a business anymore, and like they were, so it's just so serious. I mean, my whole world, which just like I'm just I'm just learning that I I know what I know what, I know what I know right, And now we have this thing called social media. So as an older person, I'm watching all these younger people and me
telling what they think life is and the meanings of life and whatever. A lot of them, I just feel it's just it's all for clicks and hits and platitudes. And I've noticed a lot of these younger influencers or talkers, what racial speaks, whatever, they follow other people like they're so like they quote other people all the time. It's like, well, what do you use think? I was, like, what do you think? But you're quoting people. I quote my own life experiences. I don't quote other people
except for family members. Maybe I'll say that Mike, grandma should say. But otherwise they will quote other folks. That's interesting thought right there. But there are a few that to me, are very unique and they're very real and they share themselves and their experience and I follow a few of those and I love those those guys and the other things I push aside and you know, okay, whatever, they try to get clicks and hits, and that's
the whole thing. But there's some folks who are like me, where we're just transparent. We just tell our experience. There's something about shared experience what I'm worring about in their fifties. Two. I'm in a situation right now that I wouldn't have understood about if I hadn't gone through what I went through last year. That makes any sense. I'm in a new situation where I'm able to understand that person situation because I went through it. So shared experience
one thing. I will say, shared experience make a big difference on mindset. And I'm like, okay, now, now, a couple of years ago, I would have understood in theory what you're saying actually would have been different. Now I'm like, I totally get it. I totally get But that is because I went through it myself, and I know the ins and outs of it, and it's tough. I think I'll just end it there. That's what fifty pluses this week. I'm fifty plus. I'm James la Junior, jailj Media. Talk to you next time.