i am going to be 27 in a few months. it is hard on me to not think of myself as a young person, but i have challenged that perception a bit this past week. today, i think you lose the right to be considered a young person when you have your first child. somebody depends on you then. their food comes from you, they depend on you to tell them right from wrong and when to go to bed.
i think this because i see being young as being a person that is carefree. somebody who is able to drop everything and run to chicago on a whim. you dont have to ever call in to work because your kid is sick and cant go to day care.
but all this is an unfinished thought for discussion some other time. what i sat down to write about was a conversation i had with my father in law this weekend.
we were driving to pick up some pizza from mancino's in fremont (good stuff, get some if you can) and talking about this and that. as we conversed, jack would say something and i started to think, yeah i know exactly what that is like. jack would say something else and i would think, wow, you struggle with that too.
now to understand why this is such a big deal to me is because i am somebody who likes to sit more at a computer while jack is someone who would rather be freezing his kiester off in the woods waiting for a chance to see a buck, let alone get a clean shot at it. jack is more of a man's man, where i am more of well, i am not so much of a man's man. jack can fix things. i can't. i hope you are starting to see some of the differences here, and why this is big to me.
what i learned will stick with me for a while. it will help me be a better person. we are all similar people. despite our background in life we are looking for the same things in life. there is a common ground for us to start on, it just depends if i want to care about other people and use what we have in common for the good of the kingdom.
by the way, noah should be here soon. i picked the 25th long ago and it is looking like i have a chance to be right.
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