Same as It Ever Was

I turned 41 today...me...41. The Earth has traveled around the sun once again, so it has been a year since my last birthday, and it is, in fact a little weird. Do I feel like I am 41? Do I act like someone who is 41? Have I been making posts on this blog inconsistently for 17 years? 

I was thinking about the song "Once In a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads, and it wasn't the first time. I can tell because my Youtube search history showed me I had watched the video previously.

 

The lyric I keep thinking about is:

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well... how did I get here?"

Honestly...how did I get here? I'm not sure I know the answer, but here I am. Time is flying by. I made exactly one blog post since I turned 40, and that was for Ella's birthday. I used to write twice a week. I talk to my barber more often than I talk to my oldest friends. I don't know, it just seems weird, and I ask myself that question again, Well...how did I get here?" And don't get me wrong...here is not a bad place to be.

By the nature of our age difference and what stage we are in with little kids, Shannon and I mostly hang with people closer to her age, but those people are now the age I was when Shannon and I got married. Sometimes I look around and think, am I the only one at this moment in this group thinking about things in this way, and in 8 years will these people think like I am right now, but I will be thinking entirely differently than I am now? I told you...it's weird.

I heard on a podcast that your early years are the years where you experience dynamism, things are changing, and you are doing new and different things, and when you get into your 40s it is about maintaining. That's why all of your best stories are from when you were a kid or when you were in college.

So on behalf of my Jeep Grand Cherokee (large automobile), Shannon (beautiful wife), and Ladera Ranch ( beautiful home), I may not know how I got here...but I sure am glad I did.