Monday, February 11, 2008

A 25th Anniversary...

02/11/2008

Saturday was the 25th Anniversary of my 39th Birthday.  Yep!  You got it!  I was 64 on the 9th.

One of my daughters told me she cannot believe I am sixty-four.  Now I am not so sure how to take that.  Did she say it because I am way to cool and do not act as she thinks a sixty-four year old man should act, or is it that I am so very immature no one would think me to be this old.  Hmmmm!

Well, whatever the meaning, I took it to be in a good way.  I am a happy man and more than quite satisfied with who and what I am at this juncture of my life.  In some ways I am surprised I made it to this age, but in another way I am so looking forward to being older and, perhaps, a little wiser.  I know I have grown more in the last three years than in the previous sixty-one years of my visit to the third planet from the sun.  I don’t get depressed.  I do not have worthiness issues.  I do not allow myself to stay angry for more than a few minutes (most of the time at myself much more than others).  I get to laugh at myself.  I don’t take me too seriously.  And as a friend said of me recently, I do not believe all of what comes out of my mouth – a lot of which could defined be Bullshit.  I sometimes say things that embarrass me and others, but it is fun for its ephemeral shock value.  I will never intentionally hurt anyone, but have been known to stun people for a second or two.  I am quick to laugh and equally as quick to cry.  I love play and talk with little children, and if I love you I will tell you so.  I believe in the Golden Rule.  I have a relatively new personal relationship with my God.  I love my wife.  I will not judge you for what you are, but may for what you do – especially if you do something that hurts others.  If for some reason I should die tomorrow, I will die a very happy man.

And that is all I have to say about that…