This is your life

SO last night before going to bed i read an article (which Iw ill post a link to at the end) which gave me a sudden realization. The article talked about the writers sudden realization when holding his son one day that this was it. This was his life. Most of his had already passed by and suddenly he was at the awakening moment of his own mortality and that life had come full circle from the time he was a lad looking to his father now he was the father.

He had spoken of how he felt one day he would wake up and he'd know he was an adult, expecting it to come after graduating college, getting married or having a child. I had thought the same way. I always thought one day I would just simply get to the point to where i could say I'm an adult but now I realize that time is now. This is the definitive years, the years that shape our tomorrow. Soon I'll graduate and then what? I'll be standing there, diploma in hand and I'll realize it. This is it, this is me. I'll take another step out of a life I lived into a new one. Its scary to think about it.

I am thinking of what school I'll go for my graduate degree, of finding work, of saving money for future expense, etc. It's like its all finally happened and I am just aware of it now after waking up and realizing a great truth of some age old secret. I suppose I could sum it up as another lifetime has passed me and now I get to live a new one. SO here we go, lets see where htis one takes me as I develop even further.

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/03/20/what-man-understands-that-he-is-dying-daily-this-is-your-life/

This is your life and today is all you've got now
Yeah, and today is all you'll ever have

-This Your Life by Switchfoot