{"id":43,"date":"2008-07-16T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-02-17T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:45:26","slug":"i-am-39-and-366366ths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"I am 39 and 366\/366ths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, it&#8217;s that day.<\/p>\n<p>This year my birthday is a day for reflection.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year that my body is starting to get creaky.\u00a0 In the last 2 years I&#8217;ve gotten reading glasses and I&#8217;ve learned how NOT to move my muscles suddenly when I&#8217;m just waking up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m aging, but generally healthy.\u00a0 It could be worse.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the year that I realize that some doors have closed.\u00a0 There are just some things that I could have done, but which I can no longer do because I didn&#8217;t take that side of the fork in the road.\u00a0 There are things that I never could have done (I was never going to be an NBA star).\u00a0 There are things that I have done.\u00a0 This is the year that I realize that there are things that I didn&#8217;t do, and the opportunity is gone.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t regret the decisions but it&#8217;s sad to see the closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>This past year has also been a rough but fruitful year.\u00a0 I spent a LOT of time outside of my comfort zone.\u00a0 In some ways that has paid off.\u00a0 In other ways I&#8217;ve bounced off some metaphorical walls at high speed.\u00a0 Some of this has produced personal growth and a lot hasn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Ironically, most of the &#8220;new&#8221; things in my life are actually a return to a part of my past.<\/p>\n<p>I have made a number of new friends in the past year both locally and nationally.\u00a0 I cherish those friendships.\u00a0 I have been able to help a few of these new friends with their lives and goals and that is gratifying.<br \/>\n<span id=\"g5de132468\"><a href=\"http:\/\/secretworldchronicle.com\/characters\/victoria-victrix-nagy\/\">acquisition de viagra<\/a>  It might feel embarrassing to discuss such issues with their physician. 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