Sayonara

Nineteen years. It's my final day to be this age, and most significantly, the last day I'll be a teenager. When I look back at the ideas I had as a little kid about one day being twenty, I'm so glad that dreams don't always come true! At 6 I knew I was going to be married by twenty (hardy har har!), and I thought I'd be done with school. Yeah, and I was going to be running for president pretty soon after twenty (apparently the president of the USA didn't have to have a lot of education...). Or was I going to be a famous opera singer? I don't remember exactly.
Obviously I had some far out ideas. I had some good ones too. Thankfully, with age comes an ever expanding mind. I've learned so much in my 19.9999999 years that I thought I wouldn't learn until I was old. The decade of twenties is going to require a lot more maturity, but hopefully I'm up for the character challenge.
Nineteen has been a good year for me. I got my drivers license (oh yeah!) and thereby acquired a level of independence which I think has been really good. In the long run, I've made my own choices about my education and scholastic plans (we're not going there right now!). I've had to say goodbye to some people that I've been really attached too, which has taught me the valuable lesson that there's the time and season for wonderful teen years growing up with wonderful friends and family and then there's the reality that one day we do have to make up our own minds and move on. I've learned not to get depressed about that very fact. Nineteen has taught me that life is an adventure and that when directed and guided by wise counsel, it's exciting and can be used for the benefit of mankind.
But hey! I still have a lot of life to go. I don't know much! I'm not very old! Sometimes I feel like I'm about 15 still. :-) This is a blog post to just toss some of my brain's considerations out. I like looking back over my life and doing some analysis on my choices. Just the same, I like to look ahead and evaluate my future goals. Remember, THINK BIG! God has great plans for each one of us, let's not be afraid to let Him direct us to being the BEST that we can be!
Sayonara. Au revoir. Cheers.