Isn't there something more?
03-19-07, 12:14 PM

"Wasn't it just easier when we were just dating? I mean, it just seems like all we do is work over the week-ends. I'm exhausted." I said lying in bed looking forward to sleep after a non-stop week-end.

Is this the "responsible adult phase" or have I become your typical subdivision, homeowner now concerned with creature comforts such as a good meal, a good game on television, landscaping, window treatments, pottery barn decorations, furniture sales and clipping coupons in Sunday's paper? Not so long ago, I would have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day and nursing my hang-over Sunday morning with a McDonald's cheesebureger and Coke.

After our wedding, is the last "Big Event" in my life, death? This is not a depressed comment but one that caused reflection to certain phases of my life --

4th to 5th grade: goal big shot 6th grader

6th - 7th grade: first dates and become 8th grader

8th grade: football, moped license, graduate and look forward to high school. First drunk experience.

Freshman: Football, sports, beer parties
look forward to sixteen and drivers license and JV football.

Sophomore: Driver's license, dates in a "car" (woo whoo!), Dances, concerts

Jr year: Concerts, "steady girlfriend" or in earlier terms, "go-with". Look forward to Senior Year and Prom.

Senior Year: Homecoming, prom, SATs, coasting through school, college applications, concerts, steady girlfriend, Look forward to: leaving home.

Freshmen Yr: Dorm room, getting lucky, college parties, women, bars.

Skip to Sr. Yr: Graduating. Look forward to Own Place.

Own Place: Not so fun, "work". Look forward to graduate school.

Graduate School: Not so fun, look forward to graduating and job.

Work: Find one's identity in the world.

Back to graduate school: Not so fun. Back to work.

Work: Challenge one's self, through sports again -- running. Find suitable wife.

Suitable wife: Found her -- now what? Create nest? Isn't there something more?

Yesterday - Tomorrow