Posted on 05/17/2019 5:19:25 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Growing up is a weird notion to wrap your mind around. As you go through life, your perspectives on almost everything will change. How you define success will change as well. Things that you thought were important at the age of 35 will be useless when you're 65. You may not realize it now, but everything will shift...
At age 4 success is not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is having friends.
At age 16 success is having a driver’s license.
At age 20 success is having sex.
At age 35 success is having money.
At age 60 success is having money.
At age 70 success is having sex.
At age 80 success is having a driver’s license.
At age 85 success is having friends.
At age 90 success is not peeing in your pants.
It all comes full circle, whether you like it or not.
Share this hilarious truth about life.
A newlywed young man was sitting on the porch on a humid day,
sipping ice tea with his Father. As he talked about adult life, marriage,
responsibilities, and obligations, the Father thoughtfully stirred
the ice cubes in his glass and cast a clear, sober look on his Son.
“Never forget your friends," he advised,
"they will become more important as you get older.”
"Regardless of how much you love your family and the children
you happen to have, you will always need friends.
Remember to go out with them occasionally (if possible),
but keep in contact with them some how.
“What strange advice!" thought the young man.
"I just entered the married world, I am an adult and surely my wife
and the family that we will start will be everything I need to make sense of my life.”
Yet, he obeyed his Father; kept in touch with his friends
and annually increased their number. Over the years,
he became aware that his Father knew what he was talking about.
Inasmuch as time and nature carry out their designs
and mysteries on a person, friends are the bulwarks of our life.
After more than 70 years of life, here is what he, we,
and you will have learned:
Time passes.
Life goes on.
Children grow up.
Children cease to be children and become independent.
And to the parents, it breaks their heart but the children are separated
from the parents because they begin their own families.
Jobs / careers come and go. Illusions, desires, attraction, . . . . weakens.
People can't do what they did physically when they were young.
Parents die but you move on.
Colleagues forget the favors you did. The race to achieve slows.
But, true friends are always there, no matter how long
or how many miles away they are.
A friend is never more distant than the reach of a need,
intervening in your favor, waiting for you with open arms
or in some way blessing your life.
When we started this adventure called LIFE,
we did not know of the incredible joys or sorrows that were ahead
We did not know how much we would need from each other.
Love your parents, take care of your children, but keep a group of good friends.
Stay in touch with them but do not impose your criteria.
Send this to your friends (even those you seldom see)
who help make sense of your life...I just did.
Sodpoodle, YES, you are my friend! I look for your postings as I know I will get a kick out of them and also some bit of life truths that will make my heart happy!
Blessings always FRiend! e-hugs, YGTG
“It all comes full circle, whether you like it or not.”
Or as a much older man once told me....you come into this world bald, toothless and crapping your pants. If you’re fortunate you live long enough to exit in the same condition.
Love your threads...:)
Love God and enjoy your friends.
Hugs;)
Thank you.
Recovering from eye surgery and some other stresses. FR is like meeting buddies for a coffee;)
God bless.
Good luck with all that...I hope you get as much laughter as you give here.
I swear, with the passing of Tim Conway and me going back and looking at some of his old sketches with Carol Burnett, my face has had a smile on it the last few days...the power of good in that really does help.
BOOKbump
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