Shady Clearing

So, yesterday was my 25th birthday.  25 years; one fourth of a century.  In terms of human lifespans 25 years is a good amount of time.  Of course, our lifespans are quite short.  Astronomically, 25 years is less than the blink of an eye.  It’s funny to imagine how something that feels like such a long time to us is practically worthless as far as the impossibly big picture goes.

Then again, we aren’t astronomical in scale, and the things that we accomplish usually don’t take quite that long so long as we don’t mention government and politics anyway.  That said, however, looking back at the time I’ve spent thus far on this tiny blue speck of dust, I don’t really feel like I’ve accomplished much.  I’ve yet to acquire work that I could consider a career, or even work that utilizes the specialties I have for that matter.  Relationships are fleeting and always as uncertain as the workings of the human mind.  That doesn’t prevent me from preferring to be in one, however.  Even thinking like this doesn’t change the fact that I too am human, complete with all the uncertainties and uniquities that being so entials.

I suppose all of this is mainly just rambling and circular thought, and we all do it at some point.  There is a solution to the questioning, so long as one accepts that even the solution cannot be for certain until after it has come to pass.  Admitting that, though, I do believe it’s probably time that I stood up and actually started putting forth some proper effort toward achieving my goals and making something of myself beyond simply being a nameless unkown.  How will I do it?  I honestly have no idea, but I’m going to figure it out!

Now that all the serious business is out of the way, we can move on to the fun stuff.  As I mentioned, yesterday — Friday the 13th — was my 25th birthday.  This year I managed to get days off for it though, and was determined to go out and have a good time.  My determination paid off, too.  Didn’t get a large group of people together; just a few, which is fine by me.  We ate out at Applebee’s, which could have been better, but it wasn’t bad for as busy as they were.  From there we left to go to Darren’s Pub, where we stayed for about 4 hours, listening to music, talking and drinking.  Between the beer at Applebee’s and the mixed drinks at the pub, I was rather toasted for a while, but I recovered near the end.  All in all it was a good time for all, I believe.

As far as gifts go, I received an armband strap for my Zune so I can more easily use it at the gym, a book about keeping things ‘interesting’ in a relationship, and a hookah!  It’s not a fancy one, but it’s good enough.  I had my first experience using a hookah when I went to visit Dragoon in Lexington, and I rather enjoyed it.  Apparently, I had later mentioned to my friend C.C. in passing that I wouldn’t mind having one, and the sneaky woman latched onto that and now I do have one.  I’ve already used it once, went went well, but more practice with it will yield even better results, so I’m totally ready to use it again.

Overall, this was probably one of the best birthday celebrations that I’ve had in a long time.  I certainly can’t complain, that’s for sure.

That’s it for now!  I’ll write more later.