Time flies!

So I realized today that this year is almost over. I had a conversation with a friend this morning that reminded me how really short life can be. It's odd how fast time really does go by. She is adopted and just found her birth parents......her mother is sick but her father, her birth father was healthy, happy, successful and she had finally established a relationship with him but he was unexpectedly killed by a drunk driver over the last weekend. She was conflicted on how to feel and how to process it all. It got me to thinking.....time really does fly by us without much control.

If I could write a letter to myself as a younger person I would tell myself these things......that things we think are a BIG deal...really aren't. Life isn't always what you think it's going to be. You have to be able to roll with the punches and now worry what anyone else thinks. As long as you are good and kind and treat others as you want to be treated, you are going to be OK. Save more than you spend. You DON'T need all those "things" you think you do. You need a safe place to live, a reliable car and a few really amazing, good friends you can call ANYTIME to talk you off the ledge. The boy or girl you THINK you love who doesn't know you exist....isn't worth your time or energy. At some point at sometime someone will come along and see how amazing you are and will hold your hand like no one else ever has...that' the person you hang on to. That's the person you give your energy and time and soul to. The rest of them don't matter. You can and WILL out grow your childhood.....your parents......your sibling fights...they don't really last! There is always that one person, and maybe it's not the person you thought it would be....it may not be your wife/husband/partner/lover/boyfriend/girlfriend....that you can turn to when no one else gets you....but find them and hang on to them for all they are worth. That a college education DOES make a difference......that learning to take care of yourself and to only rely on you for your own happiness is the only thing you need to remember. Laugh every day. Be nice to old people...they have already walked the path you are beginning on. No one gets through this life alone. Love like you will never get hurt and give like you have all the money in the world. Don't forget to tell those people in your life you love them.....even if you think they know it.....you never know when you won't have the chance againg to say so.

Time waits for no one. We all get older, we all make choices every single day that effect the next and the next. Live with no regrets and do what makes you happy but doesn't hurt another person.

That's all I have on this random Wednesday night.