So, it feels like this should warrent a spot on a blog, whatever that is. Tonight, these very moments, as I lay here in bed, typing away with my beautiful wife sleeping soundly next to me, are the waning hours and minutes of my 20's. Seems strange, really. Think about it...shortly, I'll fall asleep, only to wake up with a new decade of my life begun. I can no longer say I'm twenty this or twenty that...its over.
I was excited to turn 20. I'm sort of indifferent about turning 30. I hear that some get depressed by the idea of leaving their 20's. After all, in our culture, it is the peak, is it not? Don't all the marketing experts focus on my present age group? Are we not the ones that get all the attention and labels? Sort of a manufactured peak...in a manufactured culture. "Everythings down hill after you hit 30!"...or is it 40? 50? 80? We wear what they say to wear, we eat what they say to eat, we ban what they say to ban, we drink, we work, we...do what the marketing people say we should do...we believe what the marketers and elite journalists say we should believe. Am I a pessimist? No, I think that's just realism and reality isn't always rosey. I digress.
What a decade it was! So much has happened. I graduated from college, from grad school. I worked 6 years at a big, fortune 250 company. I made manager when I was 28. I gave my life to Jesus. I met Megan and married her. I lived in Germany. I traveled to much of Europe and to Uganda. I found joy and peace. I've learned the world is not black and white. I decided to leave my cushy corporate job and plant a church instead. I decided life is pointless unless I give all that I can to what I believe in. If I don't, then how much do I really believe? I bought my first home (condo). I learned about the life-changing power of community. I learned about the power of God...I mean real power, not theoretical or conceptual...I'm talking about real power to effect change, physical change. I learned about what is important in life. I learned that I don't know everything and that I'm not invincible and somehow that's more comforting that thinking I did know everything and that I was invincible. There is so much more. What a decade!
Its now 10:33pm, according to my Oregon Scientific alarm clock, somehow picking up a signal from someone official, essentially guarenteeing my time is accurate. 10:34.39..........
Gonna be 30, thirtysomething, 3_....
Getting sleepy.....its time
Thursday, September 08, 2005
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