Age Is a State of Mind

Originally written January 2005:

Lately, as I quickly approach my quarter-century milestone, I've been spending a considerable amount of time thinking about my past, and how it's led me to where I am in the present. I have never been a believer in Fate--that our destinies were ordained the moment we came into existence--but I do believe that events in our lives happen for a reason, that they come about as a result of circumstances that exist due to the decisions that we make, or the situations that we put ourselves in.

Some of the events that have transpired during the course of the last twenty-five years have left an indelible impression on the face of the civilized world, and also on me. I have also witnessed many things that have not had the same impact on the world-at-large, but have had a great influence on the way I see the world.
I can only begin to imagine, with the scope and significance of the events that I have had the privilege to be a part of during the last quarter-century, what greater and more wondrous things the next 25 years will hold, and what incredible and interesting people I will have the fortune to cross paths with.

For those of you that read this, I thank you for the honor that you have bestowed upon me, to have taken in and thus become a part of these words that I have written here.

I hope that your lives will be just as incredible and fulfilling as I know mine will be.