Some General Observations

Some general observations about being my current age:

• being comfortable in my own skin
• being painfully aware of the "should's" - be married/have kids/house/career
• old enough to get drunk with South African miners...
• smart enough to leave before things get rowdy
• young enough to remember child-like joy, only now over a delicious cup of coffee
• young enough not to have been anywhere when Kennedy was shot
• old enough to realize the new Kennedy question is where you were on 9/11
• old enough to remember when the most sophisticated thing on a computer was "Word Munchers" and "Oregon Trail"
• young enough that my mom expects me to know how HTML
• old enough to suspect that everything I'm going through is only new to me
• realizing the universe will more me forward anyway, just like it has everyone else
• having time only for really superb people
• forgetting about people who aren't
• wearing sunscreen
• eating lucky charms and watching cartoons on Saturday morning
• while simultaneously rebalancing my retirement portfolio online
• remembering to check the air pressure in my tires
• worrying about my parents age
• being able to dance until dawn but realizing, There Will Be Consequences
• paying my own way
• having "my drink"
• fielding embarassing, inappropriate questions. All the time.
• really, really, really empathizing with Bridget Jones
• laughing continously, mercifully and un-, at myself
• having people wonder what is wrong with me
• half-heartedly wondering myself
• wise enough to value time sitting still
• while still itching to keep moving, growing, learning and conquering