New Year...New Fun

So the New Year is finally here. With holidays and just the plain day to day duties sometimes the actual message of a new year gets lost. New ideas, new resolutions, new laws, new bills. So as I sit here thinking ( a new concept), I wonder if this year will bring something different to our lives. Well that was the understatement of my life. How often do we think that this year will be the year to do... Or this will be the year that the Chargers win the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter. It is the journey that matters. I know it sounds cliche but it really the journey. I was talking with my fellow students on break the other day about how great it would be to just lie down in a park and take a nap. There were the things oh not here, the grass is itchy, homeless people, you know the drill. When I was younger wondering in Las Vegas trying to get my life on track I walked and walked and walked. I would get to a park and just lay down and take a nap. I would sit and think. Just me with no other distractions. I would see other people and their interactions with their families. By myself I had so much time to contemplate so many things. But now I look at those times as WOW was I ever the bum. Now is the time of my life. Instead of getting to sit and contemplate I get to pickup toys, watch my children, clean faces, pickup toys, make lunch, feed the gecko, pickup toys, you get my drift. Is this great or what? I truly see purpose in life with my family. Life may go by more quickly with less things accomplished but I get to see the things that matter most. I could be snowboarding right now. I could be surfing now. I could be golfing now. I could be on a week long trip on a motorcycle right now. I could be hiking in Yosemite right now. But I am not. I am at home with my family full of love. I am in the place that is most secure. I am with the ones I love. So is it a New Year? No it is just another day full of adventure, diapers, toys, music, tears, laughter, bills and so much more.

Tim