life is funny....

Today I decided to get back to my college days ( many years ago), and start playing soccer again. In my mind, I am still twenty two. The only difference from then and now is that I have a family. In my mind. In reality, I am in fact, much older, and slightly bigger in size, and after tonight, much slower then I used to be. As I ran up and down the field, trying to keep my lungs from busting out of my chest, and watching girls run by me- I thought to myself,"damn, this sucks!" But I pushed through it and made it to the end of the game without passing out. Life is funny. Now I look at my fourteen year old and watch him as he is about to start a new adventure/ chapter in his life- high school. I think to myself, as I stare at him trying to be " cool," the world is truly your oyster, you can become anything in the world- as long as you focus. I have learned that perseverance is just as important as brains (possibly more important). If you are capable of sticking with it, success will inevitably follow. May he always persevere. So life is funny, sometimes it takes awhile in your life to figure things out. Life is funny that way. Maybe somebody had it right when they said it might be better to start your life out old and get younger. That way you are wise enough from the start to make the right decisions. But then again, that wouldn't be as fun!