{"id":439,"date":"2010-06-22T06:07:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisademmi.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2010-06-22T06:07:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T10:07:48","slug":"when-i-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisademmi.com\/when-i-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"when i grow up?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the other day the wife and i are driving somewhere and i asked her what she wanted to be when she grows up and she says\u2026\u201di\u2019m almost 50! i\u2019m too old for that now.\u201d that kind of caught me off guard. it made me mad AND sad at the same time. why? because i\u2019m not that far behind her at 48.<\/p>\n

i personally think \u00a0my best is yet to come. i think i haven\u2019t\u00a0become what i\u2019m going to be when i grow up and that i haven\u2019t quite refined my place in the world yet. so i started thinking how sad it was that someone not yet 50 thinks they are too old to be what it is they want to be in life. hell,someone at 50, 60 or 70\u2026when is the age you\u2019re too old to be what you\u00a0want\u00a0to be? as far as i\u2019m concerned, we never get there\u2026<\/p>\n

what do you guys think? should we just curl up and keep going through th motions after we hit a\u00a0certain\u00a0age? i don\u2019t feel like i\u2019m old AND i certainly don\u2019t think i\u2019m too old to be\u00a0whatever\u00a0it is i\u2019m gonna be\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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