Isn't it amazing how time flies! As I get older I start measuring time by trash days, every time I turn around it seems like it is trash day again. A few weeks ago Chance and I started exercising again, we had taken some time off. The first night I thought I was going to die, I couldn't believe how out of shape I had gotten. Another thing that you start to think about as you age is about all of the things you wish you had done when you were younger or done differently. For instance I lived at the beach during the 80's but never learned to surf, never went kayaking or went sailing. Now that I am older I look back on high school and scouts and think of how differently I would have done things, like working at my jobs less and getting involved in more at school and in the community. I feel so much pride in the fact that my children are so much more involved in those things now and are such good students.
When I look back on high school and college I remember people as they were then, and those memories stay with me about that person still to this day. It is amazing how the party people and really mean people could be ministers now but in my mind I still remember how they were in our youth. I think this is one of the biggest thing people don't realize is how they are perceived in the eyes of others and how that perception can stay with someone for life.
Last week I went to the high school to see Jeff Foxworthy and he said a few things that were very poignant. The main one that keeps coming back to me was that life is like a taking one lap around a race track, when that lap is over you can't go back and do it again. Wow, that really said it all right there. Watch where you are going and don't be in such a big hurry to finish the race, stop and try things along the way and remember you don't get any "do overs" in life.