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When you're young you think it will last forever and a day. The future is not in your plans, just today and getting your homework done. waiting for the weekend and summer vacation. After you're through school you go find yourself a job, or college takes up your time, things have not changed, you still wait for the weekend or your two week vacation. Time is passing you by, but you're still not thinking of old age. That is for other people, not for me. Then for some marriage and a family comes along. As you watch your kids grow up, you start to wonder, man where have these years gone to. As your children start getting ready to leave home you wonder old age is not for me, I don't have time for it, I'm still young yet. Now that the kids have left home you tell your wife now we can do want we want, now that the kids are not living at home anymore. One day you look in the mirror and say who is that old guy? Am I that old person that I have been saying I was not to become, but am now. The grandkids start coming along and you are so proud it brings you so much joy every time they come over, you finally retire so you can enjoy those beautiful grandchildren even more, you have become that old person you didn't want to become, but then you say to yourself, it is not that bad of a deal, having these little grand babies here has made it all worth while my life is not over, it is only beginning, old age is not that bad. Written 6-21-11
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