Just Around The Corner

Essentially, for guys, when it comes to aging, we have three specific categories which are young, middle aged, and you look good. In pasts Yodaisms I've joked that I've considered myself old but in reality I am actually middle aged. For guys, we reach a certain point where we can't do certain things like we did when we were young and yet we're not at that point where we're going to stop either just because that fire is still felt inside. But the question can be asked how does one know when reaches middle age? Thinking about it, there are tell tale signs that will reveal a person's crossover from young man to a middle aged dude. A middle aged dude that will come to realize that change comes whether you like it or not.

Listening to music is fundamentally a staple of many people's lives, it keeps us sane from our own lives that we live on a daily basis. When I was younger, blaring music that would shake, rattle, roll a person's windows was part of what being "cool" was all about. Now that I'm reaching the age of 30, I find myself wanting to hear music at a respectable level. A level in which its not too low where you can't hear it; but not too loud that it makes your ears bleed. Working in the asylum, I've been told that I'm not cool anymore and that I'm not hip and happening. Whether or not I know what's hip or happening is inconsequential; as long as their song that I like to hear, understand, and has a nice beat I'm a happy camper.

Someone once said, ~It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody asks you the question.~ To tell you the truth, I don't have all the answers and if I did it would be shared with everybody. Unfortunately, I ask the same questions you do as its put down in these Yodaisms on a semi-daily basis and many of you have taken it to heart. For its the wisdom that I have gained over the years I find myself taking aside particular kids in the asylum and sharing what I know. In a sense, I'm kinda like Yoda, though I'm not a green, 900 years old, or have the powers of the force. Initially, its a funny thing when they roll their eyes at me because I used to do the exact same thing to someone who was around the same age as I am now.

There comes a point when a person is about to reach his or her 30's, one takes a look at his her friends and realizes that things do change. The one underlying change in any person's life is marriage and it starts to have a domino effect amongst your friends. Personally speaking, some of my friends are mostly single but the majority of them are either engaged, getting married, already married, but thankfully not divorced. Let me ask you this question, are more of your getting engaged/married or getting divorced rather than hooking up or breaking up? It's that realization that you have crossed over into a place of maturity in which there is absolutely no turning back.

My motto has always been ~Take life one day at a time, if you go through it too fast you will have no idea where you will end up.~ Whether or not every person takes life one day at a time, you have to admit that life can move very quickly. So quickly that it all becomes one big blur to where one says an all too familiar phrase when looking back at the past which is, it seemed like yesterday. Looking back at the first 27 years of my life I have had setbacks, disappointments, heartbreak, triumphs, defeats, dreams fulfilled, dreams crushed. Yet, there has been one constant that has been keeping me going, which is my desire to keep moving forward in life. In the end, I don't know what's in store for me when I turn 30; but I do know one thing though, it's up 2 street and just around the corner.