1. The top sides of my arms are the same color as the bottoms of them and I am not naturally white only within my swimsuit line. Turns out that blinding color I only saw on my forearm is my true coloring...curse indoor pools and real winters.
2. I'm pretty awesome. For some reason I didn't know that in high school and some of my peers didn't either and that mattered. Now I know it, most of my peers do to and that doesn't matter.
3. Age is kind of relative. People graduating from high school when I was starting junior high are now my peers. Some of us are mature and some are not. Some of the younger ones are already old in the way they're deciding to let life effect them and some of the older ones get better every year.
4. . If text books, computers, cell phones, and calculators are the only things you stare long and hard at, you'll miss everything that was really important. Human eyes and cloudy skies are really worth staring into. I regret some of my grades, but never as much as an opportunity to get to know and love someone that has passed.
5. Some risks are worth taking, some are not. Sky dive, learn something new, and give your heart to someone who may give it back. But in other areas, there is a fine line between courageous and stupid, and between enlightened and overexposed. Some things are dangerous and not worth trying. Good people deal with their consequences for many years more than they were worth.
6. Both ameliorative and pejorative change is possible...change for the better only takes longer. A lot of people give up on themselves way too soon (because ever is too soon, not to mention 25).
7. Parents are important people. Some send their children out into the world with baggage, some send theirs out armed with what they'll need to conquer it. And after all, even if we don't know what the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow is, we can assume it is faster than that of a laden swallow (see Monty Python and The Holy Grail). But often, the added baggage has only made that child stronger in which case, go little swallow!
8. Grown ups and children need love so badly it hurts and because it hurts, and because of defense mechanisms we're all annoying or mean or quirky if we're afraid we aren't or can't be loved.
And one more: My faith is different today than it was in a cozy, secure home with few disturbances. Tried and tested it comes out stronger than ever.
1 comment:
I loved your observations and I agree with a lot of what you said. Sometimes it is good to remember the things we've learned and how we've changed.
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