Boozer
01-17-03, 02:03AM
January 16. 1975.......a bouncing baby boy is born to Albert and Carol T.
Yup, that's me, 28 years ago today. It seems like just yesteday I was graduating, and now my 10 year reunion is coming up this year. Where the hell does the time go??? I can't believe I'm 28 all ready. I know, I know, "Oh, you're just a young pup yet." If that's so true, how come I don't feel like a young pup any more. I feel like I've lived the life of someone 10 times my age. I'm not sure how this will sound to you all, but I'm one of the oldest 28 year olds you'll ever meet. I've gone through some sh!t in my life I wouldn't wish on anyone. I sit back and look at all of the what if's and might have been's, and I start to think that maybe there's a reason for the way my life's turned out. Maybe there's something I'm meant to do. God knows that I probably shouldn't be here right now. (Don't ask for details. No offense, but I don't know any of you well enough to go there.) But I feel like I've been cheated in a way. I look around a see things that I feel like I've earned, but haven't been awarded yet. And I get angry because I want these things. It seems like no matter how much I strive to better myself or be a better person, these things I want keep falling just out of reach. And just when I think about giving up and saying to hell with it, something happens that gives me the kick in the @ss to keep on trying.
I guess that what I'm trying to say in my drunken stupor is that no one should ever give up hope. That the one thing that you want will somehow find a way into your life, one way or another. You just can't press yourself and try so damned hard. It will happen when it's supposed to happen. Sit back, relax, have a cold one, and let things happen as they will. As much as we'd all like to think we have control over our lives, we don't. Let the chips falls where they may. I'll be there to catch them.
Al
Yup, that's me, 28 years ago today. It seems like just yesteday I was graduating, and now my 10 year reunion is coming up this year. Where the hell does the time go??? I can't believe I'm 28 all ready. I know, I know, "Oh, you're just a young pup yet." If that's so true, how come I don't feel like a young pup any more. I feel like I've lived the life of someone 10 times my age. I'm not sure how this will sound to you all, but I'm one of the oldest 28 year olds you'll ever meet. I've gone through some sh!t in my life I wouldn't wish on anyone. I sit back and look at all of the what if's and might have been's, and I start to think that maybe there's a reason for the way my life's turned out. Maybe there's something I'm meant to do. God knows that I probably shouldn't be here right now. (Don't ask for details. No offense, but I don't know any of you well enough to go there.) But I feel like I've been cheated in a way. I look around a see things that I feel like I've earned, but haven't been awarded yet. And I get angry because I want these things. It seems like no matter how much I strive to better myself or be a better person, these things I want keep falling just out of reach. And just when I think about giving up and saying to hell with it, something happens that gives me the kick in the @ss to keep on trying.
I guess that what I'm trying to say in my drunken stupor is that no one should ever give up hope. That the one thing that you want will somehow find a way into your life, one way or another. You just can't press yourself and try so damned hard. It will happen when it's supposed to happen. Sit back, relax, have a cold one, and let things happen as they will. As much as we'd all like to think we have control over our lives, we don't. Let the chips falls where they may. I'll be there to catch them.
Al