XL Approaches

So we’re about a month away from my 40th birthday and, like every other person who’s ever turned 40, I’m left here wondering how the hell it happened.  Because it was certainly while I wasn’t looking.

I mean, I just turned 30…  Didn’t I?

30thbdaynanaNo, Greybeard…  You didn’t.
[Taken at my 30th birthday party @ Onion Creek]

Hmm.

I guess it’s as good a time as any to take stock of my life.  I’m in good health.  I have a beautiful and kindly wife.  A thriving daughter.  A great job.  Nice house.  Functioning automobiles.  A slowly burgeoning savings account.
Honestly, I’m not in want of anything at all.  (Well, almost nothing.)

Perhaps I should instead consider the things I’ve done and, more importantly, left undone.  Formulate one of those bucket lists.  I hear that’s what people do?  They fashion an itemized & actionable manifest, probably in Microsoft Excel, with entries like, climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, see the Aurora Borealis, buy a Porsche, purchase life insurance, golf more…

Or.

Perhaps I should just leave my livestock alone (nod to Grosse Pointe Blank), and just keep doing what I’m doing.

Yeah, you know what?  F^ck the buckets. Lists are for groceries.
The only things I should be regularly asking myself are:

Is what I’m doing making me happy?
and
Is it the right thing to do?

If the answer to both is “yes” more often than not, then I’m probably doing just fine.*

j.s.

*Except for the life insurance part; that probably needs to happen.

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