School
Emily starts fifth grade next Wednesday. Yes it's scary. Yes I feel older than I have in a long time, but I'll save most of that feeling for next year when she makes the leap from elementary school to middle school.
But in the mean time Emily will turn 11 next month. She's growing up and it seems like I missed it. She's started wearing a training bra and deodorant. And before too long she'll be shaving her legs and driving and leaving me and going off to college. Then having a family of her own. Then I'll die and my ashes will be spread at Disney World. Hey, everyone deserves to be at a happy place for eternity, right?
Where did time go?
When I was young, I felt like everything took too long. I thought I would never turn sixteen. And when I did I didn't care. Now my life is speeding past me. And the thing is I have stopped to smell the roses and I have stopped to look up at the clouds. It's not like I've been rushing around like so many do. I have been a lazy bum savoring the simple things that amuse me and still life is flying by like a bullet train.
Well, I'll keep being lazy savoring everything because if I am reincarnated I want to be a lazy bum again. And it's the only way I know how to live.
But in the mean time Emily will turn 11 next month. She's growing up and it seems like I missed it. She's started wearing a training bra and deodorant. And before too long she'll be shaving her legs and driving and leaving me and going off to college. Then having a family of her own. Then I'll die and my ashes will be spread at Disney World. Hey, everyone deserves to be at a happy place for eternity, right?
Where did time go?
When I was young, I felt like everything took too long. I thought I would never turn sixteen. And when I did I didn't care. Now my life is speeding past me. And the thing is I have stopped to smell the roses and I have stopped to look up at the clouds. It's not like I've been rushing around like so many do. I have been a lazy bum savoring the simple things that amuse me and still life is flying by like a bullet train.
Well, I'll keep being lazy savoring everything because if I am reincarnated I want to be a lazy bum again. And it's the only way I know how to live.