Aging Timebox by Emma Emmanuel Tran

Happy story

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:18:12 UTC

He always wanted to have children but couldn’t have any children until he was in his 50s, and it was the happiest moment to find out that his wife was pregnant with his twins. The joyful feeling was also accompanied with fear of being a parent at an old age. Another happiest memory was when he was leaving Cuba as a young child and his experience of flying on an airplane for the first time while escaping Cuba and heading to Spain. Escaping Cuba also allowed him to experience living in a few different countries before arriving in the U.S.

Funny story

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:19:53 UTC

When he worked for IBM, on one of his business trips to South America, American Airlines booked his flight to fly to a wrong city. Instead of going to his destination, they flew him to Lima, Peru. He had to call his office, and the secretary had to rebook the flight for the next day, and he had to stay in Atlanta, Georgia for a night and the office coworkers and his boss had a good laugh over it.

Impactful moment

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:20:18 UTC

An impactful moment was the birth of the twins. Nothing exciting happened in his life. The birth felt dramatic and because he didn’t want to see the gore, a curtain was pulled to cover the gore from his sight. He was offered to cut the umbilical cord and did. He described it as like cutting a thick leather shoe.

Lesson learned from life

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:22:59 UTC

It is good advice to follow the old saying, “Do not judge a book by its cover.”. On one occasion, he had to deal with a customer who appeared like a homeless man, and he didn’t think much of this guy at first. After a few conversations, he found out that the man was really bright and one of sharpest person who he had ever met.

Financial advice

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:25:43 UTC

Any good advice on how to do life: Best advice in life is to treat people how you want to be treated. Don’t cheat, don’t steal. It never leads to anything good. Be careful as you go through life to be able to tell the differences between friends and acquaintances.

Advice to maneuver life

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:27:34 UTC

The best advice in life is to treat people how you want to be treated. Don’t cheat and don’t steal as it never leads to anything good. Be careful as you go through life to be able to tell the differences between friends and acquaintances.

Health advice

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:27:51 UTC

Any good advice about health: Everything in moderation. Too much of everything isn’t good. Older not metabolize food as when younger and exercise often.

Advice to remember in life

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:29:03 UTC

As Martin Luther King said, “judge people by the content of their character”.

Views on today's society

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:47:05 UTC

Today’s society is terrible and going downhill. There isn’t respect for anything or anyone anymore. There isn’t respect for people. laws, authority, family, etc. Also, there’s a terrible sense of entitlement among the people in today's society. A society like this can’t survive for long.

Opinion on society shaping the aging process

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 19:49:57 UTC

Medical society has played a very important role in the aging process. Todays’ medical advancement and medical technology have helped older adults to live longer and enjoy better quality of health.

The Beatles were revolutionary

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 20:05:13 UTC

Grew up in the age of rock and roll in the mid to late 60s. Arrived around 1966 which was during the rise of The Beatles. The Beatles were trendsetting and impacted what was ok for men’s hair length and men’s shoe heels. They also created beautiful music.

Astronauts inspired a career in computics

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 20:06:26 UTC

He was truly mesmerized by astrophysics, which later on in his life, he chose to go to the computer programming field instead of astrophysics. It was fascinating to him how computer programming granted people the ability to travel to the moon as well as play a big role in space programming at NASA.

Technology changed and advanced the world

emmatran2 — 2024-02-03 20:08:17 UTC

When he was young, there was a monochrome T.V, and there was no cellphones. Technology in the U.S has evolved into such a modern time, and the information technology has changed to be so effective and efficient. For example, it would take so many electronic devices to carry around in the old days, but now people can simply walk around with just one cell phone or an Apple watch, and they can efficiently communicate with others over long distances, listen to music, watch movies, play games, and even do their work. Some of these are good and some are bad, such as people can influence others by sending misinformation. In the near future, AI technology can be very scary and the government will find challenges in how to regulate this.

The birth of the twins

emmatran2 — 2024-02-04 04:47:55 UTC

The twins' first birthday

emmatran2 — 2024-02-04 05:01:11 UTC