Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis

this past week Bridget and i celebrated our 2nd anniversary as a married couple. it was very nice, in that we had a great time at dinner whilst reminiscing and marveling at how our lives have progressed since we started dating almost 8 years ago. i love her. truly.

it is strange, in retrospect i should have done so many things different... so many tangents where i should have stayed on the straight and narrow...

i don’t know, they say that hindsight is 20/20 or maybe my saying this is a defense mechanism to help me accept ‘my reality’ or maybe it is true, i don’t know nor do i care really, but I can’t help feeling that any one of those, supposed missteps, being redone, would inexorably alter where i have ended up... and i just can’t bear to think that i might be somewhere other than here.... i’ve got it pretty sweet here... wonderful, loving wife, a child on the way, pretty great family and friends, etc, etc, ad infinitum.

now i’m really not trying to get all Robert Frost or anything really, conversely i guess i’m just marveling at how times have changed and how i too, have changed accordingly. and relishing every minute of it, every pungent, sweaty, teary eyed, blood caked moment of it. and it in light of my impending fatherhood, hard as i try, i can’t seem to find any reason now too.

how ‘bout you?

~m