Life Encapsulated

Life used to change a lot. When I was in school, it was new classes, new professors, new roommates. When I was a missionary, it was new areas, new companions, new investigators. Not exactly a total flux but definitely change. Then I graduated, moved to Washington, got a job and "real" life began. And really my day to day existence has stayed pretty constant since then. As spring approaches, and I have just completed my third (and last) year in the office things are happening again for the fourth time. The Ward talent show is around the corner, I just got back from the 527 Annual Ski/Snowboard Extravaganza, people are starting to talk about duck beach, the cherry blossoms are right around the corner, and the Angels T-Shirts will make up a large part of my wardrobe. All of this has led me to think about this strange phenomena. I am reminded of the pool party in Anchorman when the news team is together and Ron remarks:

"We've been coming to the same party for 12 years now, and in no way is that
depressing."

The team sort of sighs and then goes on and has a blast. I kept thinking about
that scene as I was at the impromptu BBQ on Sunday. After FHE on Monday my dear friend (first) and neighbor (second) McMary went to get a frostee with Melanie at Wendy's. We talked about this very thing.

The Queen is back.

As I was reading Deadspin today I saw a post called Ten Humans by Will Leitch the founder of Deadspin. I wouldn't say that it hit me like a lightning bolt but the moment I read it, I thought two things: I must share this with Mary and I must blog about this. I sent Mary the quote and she laughed (virtually anyway). I was glad to find something to write about because lately I have felt a bit uninspired to write much of anything ( a point that people remind me of, in fact I am sincerely flattered when people say that because it means people are actually reading this) so having a prompt felt nice.

So Will writes the following (edited slightly so as not to offend)

As we get older, we have so few moments of real consequence that we usually
don't even notice them until they're long gone. I swear , 67 percent of
conversations at parties in the last year have gone exactly like this:

Me: How's it going?

Other Person: Good, good.

Me: What's
been going on? Haven't seen you in a while.

Other Person: Same stuff.

Me: Yeah, me too.

We have entered the Same Stuff stage of our lives. I used to get this
from my friends who married early, or had children young. Now I get it from
everyone, and I give it to everyone. I might have to accept that the person I am
now is the exact same person I will be 30 years from now. Same Stuff. Happens to
everybody. 

What a realization. This could be it. It is possible that for the foreseeable future my life and your life will look very similar to what it does now. This could be a good thing or this could be a negative thing depending on how you see your life right now. On the other hand I feel like you can change your life even dramatically if you want to, but then you'll still be looking at your future.
I guess the point is this. Don't feel bad if your life isn't extraordinarily exciting, it seems like most people's aren't.
In completely unrelated news congrats to Ryan and Lauren and the arrival of Lucy. Congrats to Jordan and Marlo on the arrival of the Drake. And finally congrats to Mandy and Trent on their engagement. Mandy like I said before, we can now forgive Trent for being a dork on 4th of July 2007.
Later peeps.