Enjoying the Stage We're At

You know, when we're little we just can't wait to be grown up. We talk about what we'll be when we grow up, we play house and pretend to take care of a family and go to work. I used to play school with my younger brother; I was the teacher, he was the student. (Ha, and for any of you who know Nate, you know the kid is a genius. So you probably wouldn't be surprise that these pretend school lessons were pretty much a joke because Nate would get bored with my dumbed down work for him.)

As we get older our time starts to fly, our lives are more complicated as we take on more responsibilities and try to figure out what is the best thing to fill our time and what to cut out but really we just burn ourselves at both ends and just get burned out eventually wishing we were still children with no cares in the world and so happy with the simplest things in life.

So I have gotten to a point in my life where I am done with school and I have decided not to serve a mission. When people ask me what I am up to I just say that I'm working and playing. At this point in life girls in my area and culture are getting married (if they're not already), but that hasn't come my way yet. I'm not avoiding it but I'm also not searching for marriage as if it will bring true happiness and full meaning to life. I am excited to one day be married and have a family of my own but I am also enjoying my life right now. I think it is important to be happy with whatever stage you are at in life. I figure if you are waiting for the next step to happen in order to be happy, then you never will be. You'll just always be waiting for the next step and missing the joy of the step you are at right now.

Now I am being true and enjoying what stage of life I am currently at but I must say... I am excited for some aspects (only some) of being old. And when I say old... I mean Old. Like 80s+ old. See, at that stage of life you can say whatever crap you want and nobody corrects you because it would be rude or they figure "Oh they're old, just let them be." You can fart in public and pretend like you didn't hear it. OH AND HEARING! If you don't want to listen to someone... you can either pretend like you can't hear them OR if you really ARE loosing your hearing you can just take out your hearing aid. Problem solved.