This is a month of reflections, looking both backward and forward. My (now closed) high school back in Alabama is celebrating twenty years since I graduated (without me, by my own choice). I have been practicing law ten full years. I am personally marking two decades of friendship with one of my best and oldest friends, Michael P. I am celebrating one year of living in New York, and one month of having met someone pretty great. Later this month, I will celebrate 38 years of being alive for a wonderful, blessed life. All of these are very, very good things.
Today I ran across this ad entitled "You Will" from 1993. In it, AT&T says stuff like "One day, you will be able to read a book from a thousand miles away" and "One day, you can send a fax from the beach." AT&T was incredibly prescient (though we send emails, not faxes). Almost everything that once brought us wonder is now a normal part of life. Sometimes you have to stop and observe the normalcy in order to bring back the wonder. I mean, we really can send emails from the beach.
Something about watching this ad made me stroll down memory lane, and made me reflect on how different, wondrous, and terrifically normal I expect my own life will be over the next 10, 15, or 20 years.
I am so excited about it.
