Drinking my 23 years old beer all time favourite

this drinking hobby I used to have

after full time work days

I am reminded of how time has passed

 and changed us

Back then I was working overtime

about 50-60 hours a week

like I always did before I got sick and even after

I had ambitions

vague goals of being successful

whatever that meant

but it sure meant a career back then!

I had to mourn my career when I became so ill

I could not return ever

Had to try French tutoring

impossible to survive on such income

but fun vocation for about 10 years

then translation also throughout it all

then becoming an author and poet

and even dabbling with being a painter for two years

How will my old age pan out?

Not that well I am afraid

but who knows

as a wise old man once told me

'I'm an optimistic'.