Old Voices...New Thoughts

I have been so busy the last few days that I have shirked my "blogging" duties. I was actually going to skip again today until a "voice from the past" gave me a bit of last minute inspiration. So without further ado...here we go.

I used to despise all things FACEBOOK. I thought that it was a forum for stalkers and losers...for people that had no lives and therefore received great joy from the sadness and goings-on of others like themselves. Well..now I am one of those stalkers and losers!! I have to see that FACEBOOK while entertaining in a cleanly, voyeuristic way...has allowed me to reconnect with dozens of people that I haven't spoken to in years. For this...I say "thank you" Mark Zuckerberg!! While it nauseates me that a person 6 years younger than me is a billionaire...I salute you for your ingenuity and brilliance. Without you...how else I can find out how many of my peers are far more successful...or be re-introduced to pictures of myself when I actually had a singular chin!! Either way...it is a daily journey and I truly am addicted!!

There is something very comforting about being a 32-year-old, flawed, married man with a baby soon to come...who can talk with people who knew me at my darkest. I can't explain it nor will I attempt to...but I guess it reminds me how far I've come. I have hurt so many people in my life. Many directly...but many more indirectly. I have gone through so many stages and transitions...and while I feel that I am still evolving...I wouldn't recognize that person that I used to be.

Throughout my life...I have always had the support of incredible friends and loved ones. While I rarely heeded the advice..it was not lost or falling on deaf ears. Life takes us down many different paths...and while sometimes things don't workout the way we think they should...in the end...God has a plan. I am so blessed to have been touched, loved and to have loved...some amazing people in this life. I am blessed to walk everyday with theiur indellible footprint on my soul. I guess the older you get...the more you think about those times and moments. Many of these moments were taken for granted at the time...but yet still linger in our mind's eye.

While there are so many things that I truly wish I had done differently...I have no regrets. My life has been an adventure and a journey...mixed with hysterical laughter and at times devastating sadness. Through it all...I sit here today...feeling nostalgic and blesses to be able to hear the sounds of those "Old Voices"...once again. As I prepare to welcome my little girl into the world...I just hope that when she is my age...she can look back on the trials of youth, the tragedy of being a teenager, the tumult of her 20's...and smile comfortably and confidently...for those "Old Voices" never truly go away...they are simply redistributed into "New Thoughts."


Until next time friends...I truly love you all