LIfe is completely different at every stage of life

 I suppose this should be what everyone already knows.

Then why was I surprised at each new stage of life?

I can remember watching people get beat up with blood flying from fists to faces. I can remember a child who walked to close to someone swinging a baseball bat in Grade school with blood on the ground. I can remember watching "Bambi(1942) which by the way changed how hunting laws functioned in the U.S. where you could ONLY shoot Bucks and not does or fawns. I guess they figured that at least one buck would be smart enough to avoid getting shot by hunters and then impregnate all the females he could which is likely true.

I can remember entering Junior High School (Woodrow Wilson Junior High School) and I remember how awful children were and how confused I felt about everything from 12 to 14 years old. I remember towel fights in the showers there were older boys tried to snap off the testicles of younger boys with snapping towels so if you didn't shield your private parts from them they might cause you harm.

I can remember being 12 and growing 8 inches in one year so I started to look like an adult size wise by 13 years of age. I grew from 5 foot 2 to 5 foot 10 that year. I can remember being 15 and girls started falling in love with me because I was 6 feet 1 inch already and I had just gotten my front teeth capped so I looked good even though I had broken off both my two upper front teeth in a bicycle and car accident where I left the two halves of my newly grown top two front teeth with teeth marks in the back of a 1949 Dodge car while I was waving at kids I knew in the park.

I can remember a girl who was older than me who took me to her house that told me she was going to marry me when I was 8 or 10 years old and she was likely 12 and I wondered whether she was really sane or not. Still not sure but a really beautiful girl then.

I can remember my father letting me drive his Truck which was a GMC utility Body Electrician's Truck because he was an electrical Contractor then and still alive then in 1961 when I was 13. He let me drive over the Angeles Crest Highway to Antelope Valley and sometimes all the way to Yucca Mesa above Yucca Valley which is a little town in the desert.

I can remember driving on a very rainy day through the desert where rain is always sort of very unusual int he desert and there were roads that we used to call "Whoopie Roads" because they went up and down and people sometimes left the ground in their cars at the top of these many rises in the road if they were going fast enough.

Well. One day it was so rainy in the desert that I had to slow down because the water was about 3 feet deep coming out of the mountains on the desert. I barely could drive the truck across this without killing the engine. 

We stopped and asked a young man in a car if he needed help who was in shock because he had hit this 3 feet of water at about 90 mph and it had bent the whole front of the car up including the fenders when he hit this water at this speed. But, he was too in shock still to even ask for our help so we let him alone as he asked.

I remember all these things and more.

And as terrifying as a lot of this is it was nothing compared to what I had to deal with from about 18 to 50 years old.

Strangely enough my life has been much easier since I retired at 50 because I was forced to by my health. So, God has graced me with a really amazing life and three wonderful children and now 4 grandchildren and I'm presently with my wife of 30 years now.

So, God has been good to me. 

Every stage in life is different and if you don't think it's going to be different then I have news for you.

Because Life can be anything you choose to make it.

you don't have to be a victim your whole life.

It's a choice of who you are going to be.

For me, sometimes life was terrifying but mostly my life was always an adventure.

What is an adventure?

It's a difficult situation well managed.

That's how I see my life now. A difficult situation well managed.

My life wasn't perfect and neither was I but it sure was an adventure always.

So, when I look back now my life looks like an adventure movie to me and the traumas are mostly fading away now and mostly I have to deal now with aging and my health more than anything else.

Thank you God for my amazing life!

By God's Grace