Monday, August 22, 2005
The days of my life are flying by me right now. I am strongly reminded of Billy Crystal's quote from City Slickers, quoted here in its entirety mostly because it's hilarious:
"Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?"
Anyway it's not that bad yet. Actually, things are pretty damn good. I am to be married in about 6 1/2 weeks. I am losing weight and I feel healthy. I live in a nice apartment that I can afford. I'm swinging the wiffleball bat well. My friendships and relationships are stable and happy. I recently won the right to select first in my fantasy football draft. I had the pleasure of hanging with my fiancee all this past weekend. I'm learning how to play dominoes pretty well.
So things are hanging together pretty well at the moment. Even the weather is cooperating. Sometimes I despair that this blog is not more than what it has been, but it's not the sort of high-level despair that's going to inspire serious action. No, what I'm thinking is pretty much what you're going to get here. Right now, I'm relaxed and trying to enjoy it all. Isn't it obvious?
"Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you're a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering "how come the kids don't call?" By your eighties, you've had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?"
Anyway it's not that bad yet. Actually, things are pretty damn good. I am to be married in about 6 1/2 weeks. I am losing weight and I feel healthy. I live in a nice apartment that I can afford. I'm swinging the wiffleball bat well. My friendships and relationships are stable and happy. I recently won the right to select first in my fantasy football draft. I had the pleasure of hanging with my fiancee all this past weekend. I'm learning how to play dominoes pretty well.
So things are hanging together pretty well at the moment. Even the weather is cooperating. Sometimes I despair that this blog is not more than what it has been, but it's not the sort of high-level despair that's going to inspire serious action. No, what I'm thinking is pretty much what you're going to get here. Right now, I'm relaxed and trying to enjoy it all. Isn't it obvious?
