My birthday is this weekend and boy, this year is going to be hard to top.
As I grow older I have noticed a few things that are different now than they were only a few years ago. No, I’m not talking about the economy or the current White House inhabitant, I’m talking about important stuff. (You can laugh. It’s a joke.) See below:
- You are actually starting to feel like an adult. Not that you always have your stuff together but that you can honestly say you’ve had at least one fruit today and you paid all your bills on time this month.
- What goes around, really does come around. Gossip, slander, head lice and cutting people off in traffic are all prime examples.
- What you put in, is really what you get out. This applies to both the public world and the world behind the bathroom stall. If you put poison in your mind or body, poison is what comes out.
- You are starting to have some nice things around your house. Small dinner table centerpieces start to pop up and replace the Tupperware from yesterday’s lunchbox that used to populate the entire table.
- You actually wash yesterday’s lunch Tupperware within a week of its usage.
- However, with laundry, you still wait until the last possible day to do it. And we all know what day that is.
- Your coffee needs less creamer and sugar than it did a year ago.
- You own a vacuum and a mop. You might not use them except for every three months or when guests come over. But you own them.
- You have the do-not-disturb setting on your iPhone turned on, starting at midnight, and believe it’s the best feature your phone possesses. You laugh though, remembering not 5 years ago midnight is when you actually started calling and texting your friends to see what they were doing that night.
- Death becomes increasingly harder to deal with. As a child, you only had a few years of memories with a person. Now you can have up to 26 years of them and their loss is felt with each gasp of air and each beat of the breaking heart.
- You start to prefer phone conversations to texting conversations. But face-to-face overall, especially when they are in a coffee shop.
- When your mom calls, it’s not always to tell you sad news. It’s actually just to talk and you find you love every minute of it. Same with dad. Although let’s face it, he hits all his main points in the first minute and then passes the phone to mom.
- You realize no one is going to read 26 things in a list (Well, no one younger than you.) so you stop your list at 13 because it’s an odd number and it’s half of 26.
Year 25 was one of the best of my life. I can’t wait to see what year 26 will bring!
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