It is now really kind of celebration for me to post this entry. Because as you know this blog was originally a birthday gift to you. That is what makes this one kind of cool.
First of all today marks 9 years of this blog - yes 9 years. Almost a decade of entries.
It also marks the 250th entry in this blog. Which I gather is a kind of milestone, so the pressure is on to make it special. No worries, I had an idea waiting for an entry. I'll just make it "birthday-ish" so it fits.
About 3 weeks ago we sat in the basement and had a conversation. You will remember the one. It wasn't a fun conversation by any means. But afterwards it reminded me of something incredibly important. Something that made me realize that I needed to change my view on life or at the least change my approach,.
You see my love, this is a good life. And as you celebrate your 47th birthday, I am going to make it my mission to have us always remember what a good life has been crammed into the past 28 or so years (that math gets so fuzzy all the time).
So first of all let me give you a math test of sorts. WE have been a part of your life for almost twice as many years as WE have not. In fact, officially (rounding up of course), 60% of your life has been lived while it was WE. This means that whatever we experienced prior to WE isn't nearly as impactful as the WE parts. (Side not spell check is telling me that impactful is not a word, I disagree). The WE part of our lives in now just OUR lives.
We have been so blessed. Do you have any idea how important it is to know that every day when you wake up, the person in the bed with you loves you with all their heart? We shouldn't take that for granted. In fact everyday when we wake up our day starts better than any other person on this earth. What we do with our day from their is on us. WE started out ahead of everyone else.
WE have two amazing young ladies as children. While neither is perfect, they are simple reminders that our love graced this world with two amazing people. They know what it means to see what true love is, they saw it every day. They may not realize that now, but they will some day. It will become important to them soon enough.
WE have endured every bad turn, every piece of bad news, every bump in the road - EVERYTHING. After it all WE still know all WE need to do is reach out for the other ones hand and everything is fine. Not only is fine then, but it will be fine forever.
There are no bad days my love. None. There are annoyances in our day. That is it. Blips. White noise. Static on the screen. Call it whatever you want, but WE have had so much good in our lives that WE know that it will pass. When it does WE can hold hands or hug and know that WE knew it would be fine all along.
So your "extra" birthday gift is for you to join me in my new view on life. Because the view comes from WE. WE is what is really important. WE make everything alright. WE will slip into bed tonight and tomorrow WE will wake up with a head start on the rest of the world. No matter what.
Happy 47th birthday. You are as beautiful and amazing as you were at 6 or 9 or 13 or 18 or 25 or 32 or whatever age you want to choose. You are as perfect as you need to be my love Always have been.
You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.
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