Destination Unknown

I was driving my car this morning towards an appointment and I started to think what if I just get on the freeway and drive to a destination unknown! I wish I could just let go some times without thinking about tomorrow or ten years from now and live free. Free from the daily grind we all endure.

I should go somewhere that no one knows who I am and reinvent myself. I could become Bob the plumber or Tom the tow truck driver and leave it all behind. Simplify my life without all material things.

If it were only that simple everyone would do it and we would live in a crazy free world of people constantly trying to change who they are. Maybe as we aspire to be someone else, we are missing out on who we really are. I think that life may just be a series of unknown destinations that we navigate to the best of our abilities without crashing too much.

Manic Monday's

Why is Monday such a dreaded day? I woke up this morning feeling great and then it became a Monday as the day progressed. The bad news is now I am only a week away from the next one. Manic Monday, man do I wish it were a Sunday!

A child's eyes

Recently I had my first child and he is a little miracle. When I first laid my eyes on Alex I was not sure what to think. How was I to raise him? How could I be responsible for another human being, when I am barely responsible for myself? Now as he gets close to six months old I realize that I have been given a chance to show him the world. I will explain to him what a double steal is in baseball, I will teach him how to tie his shoes, and I will try to explain girls the best I can. As a child eyes are innocent and unaware of the world that surrounds them, for that I am blessed. Looking in his eyes I yearn again to be a child who has so much to learn, yet I realize I am a man who has so much to learn.