Blind date
I met Amy 17 years ago today. We don't observe it as an anniversary or anything, it's just easy to remember because it's tax day.
As I was thinking about it this morning, all 17 of those years seemed to pass by. For the first time I suddenly felt quite a bit older. I remembered what each of us looked like that day. We had no money, we both lived with our parents, and we had comparatively few responsibilities. I was working in a comic book store and she was working at Osco.
And now we're both 17 years older, we embarked on careers, built a house, have a great kid and have to deal with everything that goes along with that. I wouldn't want to be doing all of this with anyone but Amy. It made me wonder: when people say they want to grow old together, is that what we're doing right now? I think I watched that exact phrase in action during that moment of introspection this morning. No, we're not really old. But we're older.
And then I realized I had to take Katie's waffles out of the toaster oven and that moment passed.
It was a nice first date though.
As I was thinking about it this morning, all 17 of those years seemed to pass by. For the first time I suddenly felt quite a bit older. I remembered what each of us looked like that day. We had no money, we both lived with our parents, and we had comparatively few responsibilities. I was working in a comic book store and she was working at Osco.
And now we're both 17 years older, we embarked on careers, built a house, have a great kid and have to deal with everything that goes along with that. I wouldn't want to be doing all of this with anyone but Amy. It made me wonder: when people say they want to grow old together, is that what we're doing right now? I think I watched that exact phrase in action during that moment of introspection this morning. No, we're not really old. But we're older.
And then I realized I had to take Katie's waffles out of the toaster oven and that moment passed.
It was a nice first date though.