Please assure Kyler Lacey he couldn’t be more correct and practical in his attitudes on his future (“No, I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,” page 10, January 2012 edition of Kingston Community News).

I’m an oldie born and raised beside Puget Sound. Before, during and ever since high school, there never was a time I would have called it the best of my life. Not the worst, but as Kyler implies, a preparation period in my life, not a contender for a highlight reel.

An option I took is to be a “pre-major” at first in college, allowing further exploration of the open paths; get the near-universal groundwork over before committing to a future. I loved what I ultimately did — s/w development before the world even knew what that was — and stumbled into it “by chance” while exploring the many appealing choices before me.

If high school was the best of someone’s life — and I think a rose-colored rear-view mirror is much more likely — how sad that is for that person, just as Kyler felt.

It’s not PC to say so, but one of the best choices I made in life was not having children. More than a few parents have told me that, though they love their kids more than life itself, they would not choose parenthood “if they had it to do over.”

Very best wishes to this wise young man as he makes his choices.

Sherry Dalton
Kingston