Today is my birthday. I turn thirty-six. As trite as this may sound, it feels like yesterday that I graduated from high school and college, went on a mission, got married and had babies. I feel like my life is like watching an hourglass. At first, the sand seems to drip from top to bottom a grain at a time. It moves so slowly it is painful to watch. Suddenly, the grains start to swirl and move faster and faster until looking away for even a moment may cause one to miss the final grains slipping through the narrowing. I think I am just entering the swirling phase of life. My grains of sand are beginning to gain momentum and I worry that if I look away, I may miss something.
One interesting note, I just did a life expectancy calculator and it said that I would live to be 102. Maybe the sands are not slipping quite at fast as I thought!
2 comments:
Here's to the next 66 years!!! Happy Birthday and enjoy every one of those swirling grains!!
I love the extra note, since as I read about your aged, swirling, sandy life experience, I was thinking that you are still pretty young. I get that from people all the time. Most of my friends outside of The Church are from Adah's school, and I am usually the youngest mom there.
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