Well..today I turned 38. Only 2 short years from now, it will be the big 4-0. Funny how time just keeps moving along. When you are a kid, you hang out with your friends, play sports, go to school (which seems like forever), and waste time. As you get older (over 21), it seems like the slow mo button comes off and you are in normal speed. You do all your crazy antics and finish school (or not) and get a job in the real world. You still hang out with your friends on the weekends with no real responsibilities but you sense something different. Your pulse quickens and events start to pick up with greater speed. Now you are entering your thirties. You find the woman who you believe is the right one,have a child,and buy a house. Now the normal play button on the tape recorder of life is busted and fast forward engages. You are rushing to get to kids school concerts,plays,and sports. But you have to fight to find that moment. Long ago there was plenty of it but now only scattered fields of peace.You are now working hard to take care of everything else. The mortgage needs to be paid, bills have to be paid, and taxes have to be paid. Everything is getting paid other than your own wants and needs. Not just the superficial things like cars,clothes and material items but thoughts, dreams, aspirations, what may have been or what may still be. But there is one problem. You hear something. A noise which you never heard before. A noise that seems alien to your soul and, in fact, to the core of your inner self. A noise that by nature, we all panic at the sound of. A noise which says "sorry but you had your shot". And that's the scary part. We don't even realize what the noise is or what it' s true intentions are until it is too late. We have agents of this noise in our homes,offices, cars and everywhere we go. Hell, we even wear them on our wrists. The noise is time and it has just about run out.
happy birthday......
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