All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, ..." As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII - by William Shakespeare. Come and relive the 50s, 60s, and 70s if you are over forty years old, or come and marvel at those wonderful decades if you are thirty-nine years old or younger. Journey through the "Schoolboy" age, the "Lover" age, the "Soldier" age, and the "Justice" age of the "Seven Ages of Man," played by an All-American male of Chinese heritage. Randall L. Got retells his life's story growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and coping with trials and tribulations of adolescence, pursuing a college education, seeking romance, coping with Army life during the Vietnam War, weathering his parents' disapproval of his interracial marriage, and building a successful thirty-three year career in accounting and finance as the Vice President of Finance for CHA Industries. Each role has fortuitously led him to inner peace, serenity, and enlightenment which will hopefully allow him to gracefully cope with the dreaded "Pantaloon" and "Second Childhood" ages when he is old enough, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything," to play those roles. Come into the amphitheatre and take a front row seat, and hopefully you will be entertained for many hours, but more importantly, you may learn how to improve your own performances as you "strut and fret your hour upon the stage, and then you will be heard no more."
About the Author: Randall L. Got is an All-American male of Chinese lineage who grew up in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s when interracial dating and interracial marriages were extremely rare, and brought disapprovals from all sectors of American Society, even though the United States was considered the "Melting Pot" of the world. He was stationed at Fort Polk, Louisiana from 1967 to 1969, experiencing first-hand the turmoil and anger within our nation over the Vietnam War, and the animosity of many of its citizens directed towards the servicemen that included the "Draftees," who went to battle to protect the "American Way" when ordered by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America. After his military service, he courted and wedded the girl of his dreams against the wishes of his parents, and went on to a promising career in accounting and finance, spanning over three decades, as the Vice President of Finance for CHA Industries. He is the father of three daughters, and enjoying his "Golden Years" with his wife of forty years, living in Peace, Harmony, and Serenity, eschewing the struggles of the universe, leaving them to be resolved by the younger generations who are on their quest to find Happiness, Love, and Enlightenment.