My 30th birthday is right around the corner, and I can't wait. I've heard people say, "you shouldn't hurry to get old", but I'm not in a hurry.. it's not like I can speed it up, just like they can't slow it down! Try as I might... I can't make the day when I turn a year older come any faster... and truth be told, I don't want to. I just enjoy the excitement of it.
I have never been a patient person... I can't stand to wait for things... I've never been any good at it. I finally (as an adult, of course) had to admit to my mommy and daddy that for years, I snuck into the living room and opened all of my christmas gifts nights before christmas just because I couldn't stand them sitting there and taunting me that I didn't know what was in them! LOL! I then re-wrapped them... I am a PRO at gift wrapping! I can wrap just about ANYTHING, and well, if I may say so myself! I was a nosy child as well... always listening to what others were saying... what can I say, I'm a nosy adult too... cause I just can't stand the thought of someone surprising me with information later on. So... the fact that I can't speed up or slow down time, to make a birthday, come faster of slower makes me a little excited!
Time is the one thing that I can't even make the slightest efforts to try to change. So... i get excited when days like this are on their way. A day... the one day that everyone has and no one can change... sure... you can hide it... and not tell anyone your age, you can take good care of yourself, or you can get surgery to make you look younger than you are... but what is the truth whether you like it or not... you can't stop time! You cannot stop what your body is going to do naturally... and you can't change the past experiences that you have had because of that time that you have been allowed... you will grow older each and every year... each and every day... you will gain more knowledge than you had the day before even if only by your day's experiences.... and that is something that makes me happy. There is something new and exciting about knowing that when you wake up... you have another day, another chance to do something better than you did yesterday... another chance to change the course of the rest of your life... another chance to right any wrongs.... and a chance to make new mistakes to fix tomorrow! You have another chance to breathe and take in the world around you... you have another chance... just another chance... and who doesn't wish that we had another chance for everything?
If you have read some of my other recent blogs, you will have seen the one where I wrote about my "new life resolutions"... and today, I am making another one. Each day... as soon as I wake up...I am going to take in a deep breath, and as I let it out, I will give thanks to the Lord for giving me another chance... because I don't deserve it anymore than anyone else.... but He is giving me another chance to change. I do not want to waste this chance, but I want to celebrate it.... and I will celebrate each morning that I wake up to that new chance. My next birthday is not a day different from any others really...but it is a marker in time that i can look at and say... i have had 30 years worth of chances... what did I do with them? I may not be the inventor of the next greatest thing, and I may not be the inspiring writer that authors the next best selling novel... but I can do something... cause as I have also recently said... "A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing". So although I may not set out to change the entire world, to create world peace and end hunger and homelessness, today I am going to change...and today... I am going to be something better than I was yesterday!
It's coming... I can't stop it, and neither can you... so what are you going to do with your chances? I'm just sayin'! *wink*
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