[::..Forty-Four Simple Steps..::]
I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened in forty-four simple steps. As I turned 44 today, I intend to live forever or at least die trying. More so now than ever for the fact that I have Ziehan. This day has returned to me 44 times now in as many years. You may want to call it birthday, but I call it coincidence. It always happens on the same date every year but not necessarily on the same day. For the past 44 years, I have celebrated this date on every other day of the calendar week. A quick check on my computer indicates that I will celebrate this date on a Sunday in 2050, and a Saturday in 2070, and a Friday in 2080 and back to this day (Thursday) in the year 3020. By which time, all of Klaz 78 will be dead, Ziehan will be old, the microwave’s warranty will expire and the 99 years lease to my house would have lapsed. A cruel reality that’s so frightening to imagine… what do I do without a microwave? Where do I live? And whom do I take my daily jog with in 3020?
How time really flies. 44 years now and it seems like only yesterday that I was part of a biological process that science called chromosomes. If my mum had laboured me 30 years longer, I would have been just 14 years today. But I would never have swapped the advantage of youth for the love of Ziehan. Love is the best medicine for eternal youth, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart. With her love to cherish, with a hope to achieve and a journey to complete; I shall not look back with regret, or forward in fear, but just around in awareness. It was the wisdom of Helen Rowland who reminds me that the follies that a man regrets most in his life are those that he didn't take when he had the opportunity. Ziehan is the grand essential of my happiness…nevermind if there is a chorus of discontent, nevermind if the ground beneath us shakes, be the mountain roars, if you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – SirCumALot
On the Twenty-First day of the Ninth month in the year of the Holy Lord 2006… Happy Birthday to me.
How time really flies. 44 years now and it seems like only yesterday that I was part of a biological process that science called chromosomes. If my mum had laboured me 30 years longer, I would have been just 14 years today. But I would never have swapped the advantage of youth for the love of Ziehan. Love is the best medicine for eternal youth, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart. With her love to cherish, with a hope to achieve and a journey to complete; I shall not look back with regret, or forward in fear, but just around in awareness. It was the wisdom of Helen Rowland who reminds me that the follies that a man regrets most in his life are those that he didn't take when he had the opportunity. Ziehan is the grand essential of my happiness…nevermind if there is a chorus of discontent, nevermind if the ground beneath us shakes, be the mountain roars, if you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – SirCumALot
On the Twenty-First day of the Ninth month in the year of the Holy Lord 2006… Happy Birthday to me.
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