Another year older

Not sure how it happened so fast, but I am turning another year older on Sunday. Wow! It is unbelievable how quickly the days and weeks and months fly by and cumulate into another year. Yes mom, you were so right. Time speeds up as we get older and as the pace gets accelerated, years fly by faster and faster.
I really was just in college. Wasn't I? Had to have been. But when I look at the calendar, it shows me that it was almost 22 years ago. Holy Cow! I graduated in 1987 and if I were to think of the graduating class 22 prior to that.... say 1965.... I would have thought that they were old. But I still feel like I did back at graduation. Only... I think I am a bit wiser and a bit more confident. Why couldn't I have this confidence back in high school and college. It really would have made things a lot easier back then. Oh well... my philosophy is "No regrets".
So... I can truly look fondly back at those days and smile. I loved my time in school, but I am so much more content nowadays. I am so much more able to be everything that I want to be. Compassionate, caring, a good listener, patient, objective, sensitive and committed. No... I'm not perfect..not even close. I don't want to be perfect. I think it is an unattainable and unrealistic goal. But, life has taught me well and I anxiously await the next 44 years. Though I hope they don't come about as fast as these past 22 years have jumped at me.