As it is today, I'm a score plus 2. 22 almost a pointless age, beginnings of adulthood has already occurred, yet not quite fully an adult, (though I feel like I am)
22 years eh, 22 years is a long time, I can remember thinking how far off it seemed to be, yet now I confront it like a bear charging it's prey. 22 years has show me a lot seen plenty and felt everything.
so how about 22 things about my life that have shaped or are important to me. I remember all sorts of things in my life, digging through the churches youth closer for posters, pretending to be sick to stay at home, being sick way too much in middle school. Family Vacation to the Oregon Trail, and the education nerdiness of our family (the thing I miss the most except me and tom do it often)
church on Sundays with the family, Christmas eve with my extended family and handing out presents. The uncomfortablness of middle school, to the coming out of my shell of high school. Loves and Loves lost. Natalie the untouchable beauty of 5th grade to the undeniable beauty of Waco and biola. Ideas and emotions circulating and circumventing. Best friends never go away.
Death is a common enough theme in my family, from my grandpa in 5th grade to my mom my senior year. Going to work with her and reading books. Doing reports for fun and memorizing the bible. Christmas' in Iowa and 4th of July at my uncles. Life is a firework. And Christmas morning. A trip to a happy ending. The trip is pointless but the finality explains it all, the smile of a good present or the colors flashing in your eyes from a firework.
Tears, and smiles, fear and loathing (not in Las Vegas though), Garth brooks and Michael Jackson to sufjan stevens. Broken arm from football and ruined ankles from ...walking ha. Ninja turtles and ghostbusters to myspace and xanga. A summer away and 21 at home. Trips to Barnes and nobles with good conversations a bound.
So many things have occurred in 22 years to shape my life and mold me into who I am today. When I look back I see sadness but more importantly I see the exuberance I have about life. Mysteries to not be unfoiled but adventures a plenty. I have many many memories with my mom, I was a mamma's boy. So many happy enjoyable than in the end everything changed. It's all sad and unplanned but so are the reprocutions of life.
I have garnered my traits from these past years, my unrelenting love. I put my heart into everyone, maybe why I get sad sometimes. I have faith in people. I don't just love out of neccessisity but necessarily. I'm prepared to get my feelings hurt. I accept responsibility to the life choices I make. I am murked in hope. Hope for the best. of my life. of your life. of the after life. I hope things work out. Hope is strong because it is unrelenting. In the face of daunting fear, hope is the only guiding light and I will follow it into the dark.
In 22 years I have become a person involved in the wrong decade. An old school romantic, a beatnik poet, a torn humanist, a theological whirlpool. A man in the 50's searching for the idea of love. Finding only life, and that life is love.
In 22 years I have transformed into an adult version of myself as a kid. A tolerant, nice, respectful, sharp, witty, weirdo, only looking for love and hope. Treating people like they should be treating, and showing girls that they are worth it. You are worth every tear, every thought, every dollar, every opened door, every sneaky kiss, every slight smile, and every ounce of my soul. Everything my mom taught me. Everything my dad showed me. Everything my sister needs, and everything my brother does.
22 years may have caused everything in the world or nothing at all. I may be only as real as the thoughts thought about me. Only as real as the experiences i've felt. real as the blood i've shed. I accept these 22 years as a testament to where a life can lead. That testament is I would do anything for you. You.
I'm happy about my life, it's not the best by no means, theres pain and hardship, love pains, and hurt...but i'm doing the best i can with the hand that was dealt me. and I wouldnt want it any other way.
My middle school band director told me something that really has stuck with me ever since, i was fixing something in the band library and she walked in and said Tim one day you'll make a good husband. If your a good husband than your a good person. If your a good person than what does it matter the stuff you have done and the shit you have felt. I'm really only here to be the best person I know I can be. Sacrafice is part of the game. And a good strategy to winning.
I may have muddled views on religion, i may have question about the unquestionable, i may ask about the ways of life, and the meaning of it all, but i think the core of it all is am I a good person. 22 years of life has given me many chances some i failed other passed, I feel I'm a good person.
22 years can be summed up the last 6. Tragedy of my mom's death with the knowledge of true love. Love lost and soul gained. and It all adds up to this
Life is only as important as the people you share it with.
thank you.
even more thank you (you know who)(yes you)
^ambiguous yes.