Thirty down

Tomorrow I will have been on this earth for thirty years and it has had me thinking about how things have changed. First and foremost is how my outlook on family has changed. I think the way I look at Mom and Dad has gone through the most changes, When I was younger Mom was the one that would save me from the fire trucks as they screamed past the house in the middle of the night, I am not sure why but those stupid things would scare the hell out of me, I would run out of the bedroom to mom and she would give me a hug until they went past and then she would take me back to bed. Mom then turned into the taxi, she was the one that always knew where I had to be and at what time I had to be there. Dad was the one that would beat up any monster or kidnapper that would ever wish to do me bodily harm. About the time that mom turned into the taxi dad turned into the enforcer, the one that I feared ever finding out I had done something wrong. Then there was the teenage years where I am sure I was just as big of the pain in the ass to my parents as I thought they were to me. Some where around 19 or 20 I started to see that my parents really did know what they were talking about and in fact they did have my welfare in mind. Now as I am about to turn the big 30 my parents are friends and most importantly role models that I hope to pattern my life after.

Brother and Sister have gone through a drastic change when it comes to how I look at them. Once upon a time they were the two little red heads that did nothing but bug the hell out of me and take my stuff, also they would unfairly blame me for stuff that would in turn get mom and dad mad at me…. Or so I thought. Today as they have been for the last 15 years, they are my best friends, both of which I am very proud of. I truly would go to hell and back for each of them to help them out. I know enjoy time I spend with them and I look for excuses to hang out with them.

Grandparents when I was younger were the fun family members that always gave me candy and toys when I saw them, I am lucky to have made it into my adult years and still have all of them in my life, I lost a grandpa a few years back but he still made a huge impact on my life, My other three grandparents are still alive and going strong, Now my grandparents (all of them) are my truest heroes, If when I get to there age I am able to look back at my life and say I have accomplished what they have I will be a lucky man.

Family is huge in anybody's life and I am lucky to have been raised in the family I was, I married a good woman that comes from a great family as well, which makes me think of my wife and my outlook on girls in general. When I was young they had cooties, lots of cooties! Then that magical time of life hits and suddenly they are all that a feller can think about and they become objects of lust. Then something clicks and you find out that girls while they used to do nothing but give you cooties suddenly there is that one girl you cant live without, and you must have her by your side forever. And then the BIG MAGIC happens and she is carrying my daughter and wowie! It blows my mind how much she has to deal with and she is fine with it, If it was me I would have swapped out my girl parts for boy parts around four months ago. And the big part is yet to come, eventually she is going to have to push that little thing out of her body! No thanks, I am happy to be the moral support on this one.

Citizenship in the good ol U.S. of A. is another thing that has changed, it was at one time just a pain in the ass, All it was to me was a load of homework and stupid stuff I had to memorize. Now it is a deep sense of pride and a huge blessing that I was born into the greatest country on this earth.

Bottom line is that I hear people say that they have gotten depressed turning thirty and I cant see any reason for me to feel that way, I was raised in a great family, I married a girl that came from a great family, I love where my life is right now and I wouldn't change any of it, even the stupid stuff I have done because I have learned from it all. Bring on the next thirty I am excited to see where they will take me.