I stop by the little corner store, great selection of good beer, decent prices and right on the way home. I don't recognize the guy working (yes this is weird not because the frequency with which I stop but because it is always the same guy, really.... he works seven days a week and is so nice), I greet this new guy with a smile and put my six pack on the counter. He asks "are you 21?", "Yup" I say "actually plus 21".
Now this gets me thinking.... I have two twenty-one year olds life experience in me and it just makes so much sense in so many ways! I know I have as many worries as two 21 year olds.... Wow I have as much laundry and dishes as two 21 year olds....I also think I possess as much compassion and gratitude as two 21 year olds. I have twice as much experience, I have fu*#ed up twice as many times and redeemed myself twice as many times. Some of those things grow not at a steady rate though, I believe they grow exponentially as you guide, steer, and live your life. If you allow yourself to be pulled into drama and negativity, I think that grows and shapes you and you will be a force to be recokend with, the Queen of stirring it up, never being happy without someone at your feet. And.... if you choose a different path, seek those who lift you up, seek to lift those around you, express your gratitude, forgive (or at least move on the best you can), then I believe those things grow exponentially too. Those two twenty-one year olds both have a choice and yet I get to guide them and this year, I get a brand new baby in myself, who won't be my third 21 year old until I reach the age of 63! May my two 21 year olds teach her well, yes they may sometimes act 11 and 31 or 5 and 37 and yay!, life is a journey, act your age.... ALL OF THEM -Lo
***Can you believe we have been Best Friends for almost one and a half 21 year olds! YES! Love, Ro
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