Chris:
Welcome to your 50’s. Here’s what you have to look forward to:
-- It will become increasingly difficult to recover from any pulled muscle, tweak to the back, sleeping on your neck wrong, etc.
-- You will need to go to the bathroom at least twice a night. Good luck trying to get back to sleep.
-- Hair will begin growing just about every place you don’t want it except on your head, especially your nostrils and ears.
-- The music will seem to get louder and louder.
-- Every couple of years you will get to have a colonoscopy, which isn’t too bad if you don’t mind crapping out your guts and having a probe inserted in a place not intended by God for things to be inserted.
-- You will find yourself more tired but less able to sleep.
-- Your short term memory will begin to fade and forget about remembering people’s names.
-- All those things that seemed like critical life lessons for your kids when you were young will not seem nearly as important.
-- If you smell a loaf of bread baking you will gain 3 pounds.
Now I don’t mean to be too negative. After all getting old beats the alternative. Here’s some of the good stuff:
--Relationships tend to mean more than achievement.
--Nothing new is under the sun anymore. You will be able to do more with less because the issues you face you will have already dealt with.
--You will gather a new appreciation for the little things in life. Holding your grandkids is much more important than closing a big sale. Perspective is a gift that comes with age.
--Your relationship with the Lord will be more characterized by abiding rather than doing.
-- Being a sage is more fulfilling than fighting dragons.
-- Your relationship with your kids will be more characterized by friendship than as a coach.
-- Beauty will mean more to you because you will have more time to appreciate it.
-- Your relationship with your wife will become sweeter.
I have 7 years on you my friend. And sometimes it feels the other way around. I often feel that you have more wisdom in your little finger than I have in my whole body. I am blessed to be your friend. I love your mission and what you are doing to advance the kingdom. But what I really love is you and being able to share life with you. I miss our Cavu coffee time but am glad we can still talk.
Enjoy your birthday. I know your Father is!
Scott