The Day after the ides of June

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So, three championships in the past 15 years… Won on June 13th, 14th, and now the 15th. Yeah Pistons.

Well, that was fun. Now what?

Have I ever mentioned that I’m a geek. I know hard to believe that a guy who works two computer jobs, drives an orange box and has over 500 dvds is a geek, but suprisingly enough, it’s true. I’m a geek on so many levels. I’m a computer geek, just check out the computer I built into my desk. I’m a movie geek, I have a massive DVD collection, that you can see online (how’s that for ultra geekdom?) Now my buddy Brandon would say that guys with large DVD collections were just trying to compensate for something… I’m a board game geek who loves board games (something I owe to Brandon and that evil game called Settlers of Catan), and plays online every day. I love books (Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, David Farland, and R.A. Salvatore), and I love the Simpsons. I cannot imagine someone who is a larger geek than I am on so many different levels.

But there you have. As the time draws near for me to hit the big 30, I’ve been doing a lot of self reflecting. Unless you’ve hit 30, you won’t understand yet. You ask yourself, man, what have I done with my life, what am I doing with my life, where am I going with my life? Questions badder you from all sides, you doubt yourself, you doubt your worth, you doubt all the choices you have made and will make. Why 30? I have no idea.

I mean honestly, at 30 you aren’t even half way through with your life yet. You shouldn’t have a host of regrets yet because you’ve only really been out on your own for a little over a decade. But none the less, here I sit. Looking at myself, my life, my past, my present and my future.

There are things in my life I want to change. There are things in my life that I need to change. Some will make me happy, other’s will make me unhappy, some of the changes I make will cost me friends and possibly family. But I know that in the end, I have to do what I think is best, because it’s my face that I’m going to have to look at for the next 30 years. Get busy living or get busy dying.

One of the constants in life is change. You cannot stay the same forever. It’s never to late too start over, it’s never too late to fix mistakes, to correct wrongs, to change, to make life better, to do the right thing, to make a difference, to do anything. That’s one of the great lies in life. The lie that it’s too late. It may be too late for the out you want, but it’s never too late to try and set things right in your own heart and mind. So what will the next 30 years bring me? Who knows. I know that all I have is today and that today I have to do all I can, because I do not have the promise of tomorrow.

Never give up on your dreams, never rest on your laurals. It’s time to make a difference, so I’m off to cause waves.