Last Weekend

Everything comes to an end. Maybe not everything but a lot of things do. It is all about the transitions and changes in life and if we understand them we can move swiftly to the next step. There must be an end before there is a beginning and the time has come for mine. A new era is about to begin. People in their 30’s, I am leaving you behind to join the 40’s. This is my last weekend with you. No big deal, right? Monday morning I’ll wake up, if God allows me to, ready to face a new decade.

I would love to write about life in the 40’s but I have no idea what that is like. Nevertheless, I can talk to you about my 30’s. The 30’s was a great decade for me. A lot of things happened in 10 years. I completed a masters and a doctorate in education, raised a beautiful girl and a handsome boy who made me the dad of a teenager. I went over the 15 year mark of marriage what makes us, my wife and I, semi-pros in the marriage and parenting thing. If that wasn’t enough, I also began my art career in this decade.

Becoming 40 this year means that I lived longer in the previous century and the previous millennium than in this one. I’ve seen the evolution of cellphones and video games. I was there when ‘taping’ sound projects meant exactly that, before the computer came in. I survived Y2K and 2012 and nothing was as bad as people said. I lived through the last 5 presidents of the United States of America, and 3 popes. I also lived in 2 different states.

How is it going to be in the 40’s? I don’t know. I live one day at a time and so far I made it through almost 14,600 of them. I do know that the future glory will be greater than the first and the best is yet to come. There are plans and goals ahead and many adventures to face but the journey is what matters.