Good Night to You

            There comes a time in your life when the plane of existence you’re living on flips over and dumps you from one skillet to another. This one is almost always much hotter and has more oil, therefore cooking you faster. Visualize this for a moment if you can. Got it? Good.

That point that I’m talking about is about half way through 30 for my wife and I. I’m finding that there are many different situations I find myself in where I look around and go “I’m to old for this shit, get off my lawn you damn kids!”. Life is damn short and I’m quickly realizing it. Between my kids getting older, my little quirky health issues, friends being handed major medical issues that will forever change their lives, etc. I’ve found that all the little stuff is meaningless.

It’s the flavors of life that we should appreciate, not the silver flatware, or the fancy China, it’s the bubbly, the spilt chocolate milk, the look on your kids faces when you’re all having a good time, it’s the random and every day crap that we take for granted.

As some of you know I served in the military and was stationed in Afghanistan for a little over a year. During that time, death was a reality and we all knew it. I remember our first mortar attack, and I was scared to death. My very good friend Travis Edwards had a tent flap open so when the sun rose it hit him in the face to wake him up. I asked him to close it, he wasn’t fazed, but I was scared shitless. Being a good friend he closed it. At that moment I knew that one-day I would realize that LIFE is fucking short and at any minute it could end for all of us.

Stop and smell the roses, see your friends, go to that concert you’ve been wanting to for years, DO IT! Stop living in regret because before you know it, it will be over.

This is directed at some people in particular and I’m not going to say whom it is. If you think it’s you, then it’s probably not. Please take my advice Reader, and live life to the fullest.

“See the birds fly round and round and watch the sun go by

Take another look at your self and wave the last good bye …”