Twenty-Nine, Thirty and Other Random Numbers
Question: What’s the difference betwen your late 20’s and your early 30’s? Answer: About one second.
I am now in my VERY late 20’s and will enter my VERY early 30’s in a couple days. It’s funny how when I tell somebody or when somebody finds out the response has been the same. "Oh...30, huh? How are you taking it?" What’s that suppose to mean? How am I suppose to take it? It’s almost as if I could do something about it - even if I did care. Well, I don’t. I look forward to getting old. Some of the best people I’ve ever known were old. Most people alive today are probably still older than me, so, I suppose...I’m young. :-)
So I’ve gone about my life the last couple weeks hearing stories from everybody I know about what it was like "when I turned 30." Or 40. Or 50. Maybe I’ll be older and wiser in a few days, but it’s led me to the opinion that, overall, people are just too stressed out.
In the words of Jimmy Buffett, "I use to go crazy for days at a time, now I’m taking my time with my days." To me, that pretty much says it all. Some of the "oldest" people you’ll ever meet are, actually, the youngest.
And the reverse is true - I can think of several people in my own life who are - as a number - old. But they’ve lived (and are living) their life in a way that that is younger than most people. It’s because no matter how "old" they get, they never see themselves old or somehow required to limit themselves and what they do based on a number. That’s the secret - not the number of years you live or whether or not people see another person as "old," but what you do with the years you live. Now that’s deep, folks.
That, class, ends today’s lesson in life. And helps you instructor cope with the inevitable. Your homework for tonight is to go home, have a beer and plan your next vacation. :-)
Doorah
