This year I will be celebrating my 40th birthday. I'm being teased unmercifully by my children and, just yesterday, informed by Paine that I was going to be sooo old . I couldn't help but laugh. I guess he is right... 40 must appear terribly old from the view point of a 16 year old, but I'm not going to be spending any time mournfully commemorating the passing of my youth. I plan to celebrate the wisdom the last 39 years and 7 months has bestowed upon me.
I recently read this piece by Horace Walpole and believe it sums up my feels perfectly.
"To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom;
and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes,
submit respectfully to one's lot,
and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
whatever it is."
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