A lot happened in the last decade. I went from dating a girl to marrying her to having 2 kids. I finished school, then decided to become a teacher, then changed my mind to engineer, then back to teacher, then went back to school again. I spent 8 summers landscaping. I found a great job that I'm still doing. I lived in Saskatchewan, Montreal and Gatineau. From 'self-absorbed' to 'in love' to 'self-absorbed in love' to everything it is to be married to fatherhood. From faith to doubt to doubting but seeking faith to faith with nagging doubts. From being in great shape to getting lazy and back to getting in shape. Everyone around me has changed, too. It's been an amazing and tumultuous decade; one that saw me make all sorts of hard and important decisions; one that saw me laughing at how I'll never learn to stop saying "I'll never..."; one where I learned to be friends with my family and make more family out of friends.
I argue maybe 10% as much as I did. I am never as angry as I used to be. Anxious and mad are no longer my default moods. I completely love being domesticized now. But I still lack discipline or a real social life. And what comes out of my mouth continues to be my greatest error. And MXPX still makes me feel rebellious and young. We change, we stay the same.
I'm thankful for the last 10 years, but I've gotta say I'm looking forward to my thirties. I know we never stop 'becoming' ourselves, but it's nice to be comfortable with the notion of 'being' myself for awhile. Happy Thanksgiving and goodbye twenties.
I argue maybe 10% as much as I did. I am never as angry as I used to be. Anxious and mad are no longer my default moods. I completely love being domesticized now. But I still lack discipline or a real social life. And what comes out of my mouth continues to be my greatest error. And MXPX still makes me feel rebellious and young. We change, we stay the same.
I'm thankful for the last 10 years, but I've gotta say I'm looking forward to my thirties. I know we never stop 'becoming' ourselves, but it's nice to be comfortable with the notion of 'being' myself for awhile. Happy Thanksgiving and goodbye twenties.
